AYADE HOME HEALTHCARE SERVICES TO ENGAGE 1500 NURSES AND CHEWS ACROSS THE STATE

Vital Signs is set to engage over 1500 unemployed nurses and Community Health Extension Workers for the Cross
River State Home Healthcare Services under the AYADECARE program.

Expressing optimism, the Director of Vital Signs, Dr Genevieve Barnaby noted that the Cross River State
Home Healthcare program of State Health Insurance Scheme which is optional for Cross Riverians would go a
long way to secure the public health safety of residents most especially children and mothers in communities
especially hard to reach areas in Cross River State.

She said it was disconcerting to see that dysentery and other pandemics were on the rise with serious implications for the State’s public health expenditure, adding that the government thought it wise to tackle the root cause of the problem rather than spend excessively on treating
preventable hygiene based diseases by introducing the Home Healthcare to tackle this pandemics.

According to her, the major motivating factor outside the program is the fact that children and mothers will be captured for just a thousand naira every month were the greatest casualties of the poor health in each household will be reduced.

Dr Barnaby added that aside the fact that the initiative would create at least 1500 jobs, Nurses and Community
Health Extension Workers have so far been trained in Obanliku and Obudu Local Government Area as the team
advances to other LGAs more nurses and CHEWS will be engaged.

Meanwhile not fewer than 188 Nurses and CHEWS have so far been trained and each equipped with blood pressure
machines for BP check and thermometer in Obudu and Obanliku LGAs cutting across all the ward for the actualization of Cross River State Health Insurance
Scheme and Ayade Home Healthcare Services.