‘Why IDPs Must Have Proper Medical Assistance’

The Shehu of Borno,
Alhaji Abubakar El-Kanemi, on Tuesday called for professional medical services to be extended to the Internally Displaced Persons traumatised by the Boko Haram menace in the North-East of the country.
He said health related organisations should provide professional services to the IDPs, currently being sheltered in and outside various camps in Maiduguri and elsewhere.
The paramount ruler said though the Borno State Government had deployed some health personnel to provide services within numerous camps of the IDPs in Maiduguri, there was still the need for other health related organisations and volunteer doctors as well as other health workers to render the needed health services,
The Shehu, who received members of Doctors Around the Earth, who paid a courtesy call on him in maiduguri, said, “I commend doctors who are in Borno State to render professional assistance to those affected by the insurgency even though their mission is to fight Ebola in West Africa.”
The Founder and President General of Doctors Around the Earth, Dr. Ibrahim Khadjam, who was represented by Mrs. Hauwa Mohammed, told the Shehu that they decided to extend their mission to the North-East to assist victims of the insurgency at IDPs’ camps in Maiduguri, Gombe, Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic.
Khadjam explained that the organisation was established as a result of the outbreak of Ebola in three West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea where over 3, 000 lives had been lost to the epidemic.