2000 Kuchigoro IDPs benefit from Navy medical outreach

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Kuchingoro have benefited from the Nigerian Navy medical outreach programme.  The medical service, which was part of activities  to commemorate the Navy’s 62nd Anniversary, saw 2000 IDPs in Kuchingoro Camp, Abuja, benefiting from different services such as blood pressure checks, eye examination,  issuance of free eye glasses,  as well as […]

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Kuchingoro have benefited from the Nigerian Navy medical outreach programme. 

The medical service, which was part of activities  to commemorate the Navy’s 62nd Anniversary, saw 2000 IDPs in Kuchingoro Camp, Abuja, benefiting from different services such as blood pressure checks, eye examination,  issuance of free eye glasses,  as well as de-worming of children and adults. 

Speaking at the event, the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ete-Ibas, said it was the Navy’s corporate social responsibility meant to enhance healthy civil-military relationship. 

Ete-Ibas, who was represented by Captain Abdulazeez Zubairu, said the Nigerian Navy was concerned about the plight of the IDPs, having left their comfort zones as a result of crises. 

He said the Nigerian Armed Forces was winning the war against Boko Haram terrorists and assured that the IDPs would soon return to their various homes.  

The event also saw public health talks by the naval medical experts on issues such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, environmental, personal and oral hygiene and also counselling and testing of IDPs for HIV/AIDS.  

Also, free medications and drugs were provided for malaria, blood-forming drugs for children, the elderly and pregnant women, pain relievers and multivitamins among others.