The Federal Government has, through the National Emergency Management Agency, paid N30m to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital to boost timely response to medical cases of Internally Displaced Persons and victims of Boko Haram attacks in Borno State.
Plan is said to be under way to extend similar gesture to other major hospitals in Maiduguri, the state capital, which had treated victims of insurgency in the state.
Speaking at a press briefing of stakeholders in emergency management in Maiduguri on Thursday, the North-East Zonal Coordinator of the NEMA, Alhaji Mohammed Kanar, said the agency had supported the state government to pay the medical bills of IDPs referred from camps and victims of bomb blasts.
Kanar added, “NEMA has given N30m to the teaching hospital as support to enable them to timely respond to the needs of health cases referred to them.
Similar support will be provided to other major hospitals in due course.”
The NEMA coordinator explained that the agency and the Borno State Emergency Management Agency were coordinating all activities in collaboration with humanitarian organisation’s and lined ministries, IDPs’ committees and LGA officials.”
Kanar, who was at the press conference with other stakeholders, including officials of UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, MSF and ACF, said the activities under taken in the camps included supervision of daily food cooking, supervision of shelter and identification of gaps and psychological support to affected population among others.
Plan is said to be under way to extend similar gesture to other major hospitals in Maiduguri, the state capital, which had treated victims of insurgency in the state.
Speaking at a press briefing of stakeholders in emergency management in Maiduguri on Thursday, the North-East Zonal Coordinator of the NEMA, Alhaji Mohammed Kanar, said the agency had supported the state government to pay the medical bills of IDPs referred from camps and victims of bomb blasts.
Kanar added, “NEMA has given N30m to the teaching hospital as support to enable them to timely respond to the needs of health cases referred to them.
Similar support will be provided to other major hospitals in due course.”
The NEMA coordinator explained that the agency and the Borno State Emergency Management Agency were coordinating all activities in collaboration with humanitarian organisation’s and lined ministries, IDPs’ committees and LGA officials.”
Kanar, who was at the press conference with other stakeholders, including officials of UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, MSF and ACF, said the activities under taken in the camps included supervision of daily food cooking, supervision of shelter and identification of gaps and psychological support to affected population among others.
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