The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Tse-Yandev camp, have cried out that hunger, starvation and diseases are threatening their lives.
This is even as our correspondent, who visited the camp located along Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University Màkurdi Road, gathered that over 200 IDPs are already suffering from Malaria, cough, diarrhoea, among other diseases.
The chairman of the camp, Gabriel Iyev, in an interview with our correspondent lamented that the absence of government’s presence in the camp since its inception in December 15, 2020, has left them at the mercy of churches and philanthropists.
According to Iyev, a Lagos-based NGO few days ago visited the camp and donated the sum of N50,000 for the purchase of malaria drugs which were bought and shared among the IDPs, but due to the huge number of the infected persons, the drugs were not able to go round.
“With the help of the NGO, we bought some drugs and started treating those who came down with severe symptoms, but the drugs did not go round because as you can see the IDPs are exposed to mosquitoes and cold, day and night.
“We have over 10,000 IDPs from Guma, Nasarawa, Màkurdi, Gwer-West and part of Nasarawa and Taraba States, who are still counting because the last tranche of IDPs who arrived the camp recently due to renewed attacks and are yet to be profiled,” he said.
While decrying the lack of government’s presence at the camp, Iyev said the IDPs were going through a lots of trauma and needed urgent attention in the area of food, health services and shelter.
Culled from the Leadership News Nigeria
