Cross Rivers State College of Health Technology, Calabar

The Cross River State College of Health Technology, Calabar (also styled Cross River College of Health Sciences, Management and Technology, and abbreviated COHTECH) is a state-owned institution for training community and public health practitioners. It stands on Mary Slessor Avenue, Calabar, Cross River State, where it has occupied its permanent site since 1975.

Its vision is to be a training institution of excellence producing competent graduates able to provide efficient, modern Primary Health Care services. Its mission is to produce committed Community and Public Health Practitioners for the Primary Care tier of the health services, in a learning environment compatible with patient-centred community practice. Its philosophy is to graduate people who are scientifically, vocationally, academically and ethically committed to community interactive health care, with prevention of illness as the first priority.

The academic departments are Community Health, Computer Science, Dispensing Opticianry, Environmental Health, General Studies, Health Information Management, Medical Laboratory Science, Pharmacy Technician, Public Health Nursing and Radiography. A Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies was set up in 2013 to meet National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) accreditation requirements, and the General Studies Department, created in 2006, teaches the service courses the NBTE requires.

Teaching facilities include laboratories, an e-library, demonstration rooms, classrooms, hostels and a clinic. Sports facilities include tennis courts. The college is led by a Provost, Elder (Dr) Ita Ikpeme, and is governed under the Cross River State College of Health Technology, Calabar Law of 2001.

Programmes are accredited by the NBTE: HND Public Health Nursing received full accreditation in 2011, and HND Environmental Health and HND Health Information Management in 2013, with National Diploma programmes in Health Information Management, Environmental Health and Community Health also accredited by the NBTE.