The Honourable Commissioner for Health Cross River State,Dr Henry Egbe Ayuk PhD has today the 6th of November 2023 visited the project site of the ultra modern Fistula Health Facility currently in progress at General Hospital Calabar.
The project which has hit 85% completion is funded by Cross River State Government in partnership with Eu-Un spotlight initiative.
Addressing the press,Dr Henry Egbe Ayuk PhD thanked His Excellency, Senator (Prince) Bassey Edet Otu at who’s instance he was given the platform to self as Commissioner For Health Cross River State that has enjinjered the project.He equally thanked the partners and the field men who have continued to ensure the progress of the project.Dr Ayuk expressed his satisfaction at the level of work done at the site so far while admonishing everyone to speed work with due diligence.
“I am particularly delighted that this project will be ready for commissioning by His Excellency the Governor of Cross River State Senator Prince Bassey Edet Otu in the next one week. This project was signed and started by me and I count it as one of our hundred days in office achievement. I appreciate the effort of our partners the spotlight initiative, Ministry of humanitarian affairs, the site engineers and all those responsible in pushing this project to this level. I humbly encourage everyone to put in more effort in the completion of this mile stone project and this is a great feet for Cross River State Health sector and Nigeria” he said.
Reacting to this development, the site manager Achitech Ukpong Bassey assured that, the edifice will be handed over officially to the Government for commissioning within the next seven days stating that the work is already 85% done.
Speaking further,Dr Kenneth Takim a senior Doctor of the General Hospital who also expressed his satisfaction and gratitude to the Honourable Commissioner for Health for opening yet another channel of infrastructure in the Hospital. He decried that the mile stone seems rare in the ministry for some time now.
” We are expecting stock in a couple of days to call this project a rap.I congratulate the Honourable Commissioner Dr Ayuk and other partners for creating this window and this will really help in tackling genda based violence too” he concluded.
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