CAMP-TO-CAMP MEDICAL OUTREACH DAY 4: 683 MORE BENEFICIARIES GET FREE TREATMENT AT UIKPAM IDP CAMP.
Hembadoon Terwase, Zaki Ugondokaa, Grace Kwatse and Iortyange Wilfred were among 683 grateful beneficiaries who today received free medical care at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp at Uikpam during the current Camp-To-Camp Medical Outreach to Benue IDPs organised by the Benue State Government through the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) and implemented by Eunice Spring of Life Foundation (ESLF) in partnership with Office of the First Lady.
The 630 beneficiaries, made up of men, women and children received free treatment for various ailments ranging from malaria, typhoid fever, diabetes to surgeries for hernia, appendicitis, cysts and lymphoma among others.
The Team Lead for the outreach and Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Emergency Management, Lizzy Aganyi, disclosed that 2 critical cases (one, of a child who suffered “lobal pneumonia” which caused him difficult breathing and dry cough and another undiagnosed case of a young woman) were referred to a comprehensive health facility in Makurdi the State Capital to enable them access proper medical treatment on the bill of the State Government.
Camp Manager of the Uikpam IDP Camp, Mr. Martin Asaaga Gberihwa and the Camp Chairman, Mr. Stephen Hembaor, who disclosed that life at the camp predisposes many persons to different ailments, thanked the State Government for bringing succour to the beneficiaries through the outreach.
The beneficiaries, who were all full of appreciation for the medical intervention which they admitted had helped lift off the burden of various ailments, pains, swellings, warts and other abnormal growths that have for months been plaguing them. They expressed hope the goodwill would be extended to more IDPs who have been displaced from their ancestral homes by killer herdsmen and have been languishing at the camps scattered around the State.
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