Betta Edu, DG State Primary Health Agency Visits Bakassi Returnees Camp, Promises To Build Health Post

Dr. Betta attending to a sick child and the Bakassi women in a chat with the DG 

Dr. Betta Edu, Director General, Cross River State Primary Health Care Development Agency (CRSPHCDA), has promised to lend her voice both in the media and other avenues to source for support for the Bakassi Returnees whose lands and properties were ceded to neighboring Cameron.

She disclosed this when she paid a visit to the Bakassi Returnees camp, where she affirmed that the people are peaceful and not hostile as misrepresented by many who even call the returnees ‘militants’ in the political circle.

While addressing the returnees, she said her Agency will establish and monitor a free health care center at the camp and other displaced people’s camp in the State to reduce mortality rate.

“Few months back when we came to Bakassi for a town hall meeting to discuss about health, your elders requested that we create a health post at the IDP camps and monitor them. It looked like you have been forgotten.” She said.

After being conducted round, it was noticed that some returnees survive by renting their apartments to strangers while they sleep on balconies. One of them said: “They sleep by the corridors or balcony because they have rented their houses to people who can give them money to eat.”