300,000 IDPs benefit from NAF Free Medical Services

The Nigerian Airforce (NAF), said that no fewer than 300,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have benefited from its free medical services in two years. The NAF Chief Medical Officer, AVM Saleh Shinkafi, who made the disclosure in Maiduguri, said that the patients received free treatment at the various medical outreaches organised by the service. The medical interventions included general surgeries, obstetrics, gynaecology and ophthalmology. The medical outreaches conducted in Abuja, Yola, Maiduguri among other locales, enabled no fewer than 300,000 IDPs with different ailments to receive free treatment within the period. The Chief Medical Officer disclosed that the command was currently conducting surgical operations on 300 IDPs in Borno made up of 100 IDPs each from Dalori, Banki and Bama camps. The Airforce has also established two clinics at Dalori and Bama IDP camps and is providing psycho-social therapy to traumatized refugees as well as cancer screening services. In addition to its medical outreaches, the Airforce is also providing free meals to 500 pupils in Bama under its nutrition support scheme.