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Cross River govt closes 14 health facilities for quackery

The Chairman of the Board, Norbert Mogar, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Calabar, said the facilities were shut down between 2017 and 2019.

According to him, the intensified surveillance was carried out with a view to curbing the rate of medical quackery in the state, especially in the remote areas.The private hospital regulatory board was inaugurated in 2007. While highlighting the achievements of the board in three years, Mr Mogar said it carried out a mapping of all private facilities across the state for easy evaluation.

The board also recovered some facilities that were operating illegally without government licence while such facilities are now registered and paying taxes and other levies to the government.

 

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