The Cross River State Government has vowed to punish officials in charge of Primary Healthcare facilities in the state that ask pregnant women to pay N10,000 for delivery.
The threat was issued on Wednesday by the Director General of the Cross River Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Janet Ekpenyong, at the integrated meeting with PHC Ward Focal Persons and the state Basic Healthcare Provision Scheme in Calabar.
“The PHCs are supposed to charge just N3,000 to pregnant women who come for delivery to purchase consumables and this is only when they don’t come with their own consumables as stated on the list initially given to them “While we totally condemn these actions, we have set up a team headed by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health to ensure that culpable PHCs and personnel are adequately penalised,” she said.
The Director-General, Cross River Basic Healthcare Provision Scheme, Mr. Godwin Iyala, emphasised the importance of the scheme to the universal healthcare provision, adding that the PHCs were selected to achieve universal health coverage because of their closeness to the people.
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