Members of a Cross River community have staged a protest at Sankwala community in Obanliku Local Government Area over the death of a middle-aged woman simply identified as Rebecca.
Rebecca reportedly died during child delivery at a state general hospital.
According to reports, Rebecca was attended to by a ward orderly in the hospital on 19th October, when the only doctor in the hospital had retired to sleep.
The protesting members of the community said the incident was the third under such circumstances in the last few months in the same hospital.
The State Governor, Bassey Otu, in a statement, regretted Rebecca’s death and had sent condolences to the Paramount Ruler of Obanliku Local Government Area, Amos Item, assuring that such incident would not happen again.
The Governor also granted approval for the mobilisation of manpower to strengthen the ailing service delivery at Sankwala as well as reinvigorate services in Government health facilities in other rural areas in the state.
President of Bassang Association in Obanliku LGA, Mr Basang-Sylvania Anyawho, in a statement said the alarming and reoccurring cases of mother and child deaths, especially during childbirth at the hospital have become disturbing.
Anyawho disclosed that the reported mismanagement at the General Hospital in Sankwala is a serious call for concern, and called for immediate intervention by the government, and swift intervention to avert another case of emergency where women may suffer the same fate.
