By Jamilu Abubakar
About 7,000 internally displaced persons from Bauchi State have received humanitarian assistance from the United Nations Children’s Fund and the government of Gombe State after fleeing bandit attacks on their communities.
The displaced families, mostly women and children from Alkaleri Local Government Area, are currently taking shelter in a camp at Kashere in Akko Local Government Area of Gombe State.
Chief of the UNICEF Bauchi Field Office, Dr Nuzhat Rafique, said the intervention is aimed at preventing disease outbreaks and improving health conditions in the camp.
She explained that UNICEF has distributed nearly 600 hygiene and dignity kits while also supporting routine immunisation for children and healthcare services for pregnant and nursing mothers.
Nuzhat Rafique added that plans are underway to establish temporary learning spaces for children who have never attended school.
Meanwhile, the Executive Secretary of the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Abdulrahman Shuaibu, said free medicines and vaccination services are being provided to residents of the camp.
Chairman of the camp committee, Umar Badiko, said children make up nearly half of the camp’s population and appealed for more sanitation facilities to prevent disease outbreaks.
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