Nigeria: How I Got German Embassy to Set Up Health Clinic in Abuja IDP Camp - - Ex-NYSC Member

10 September 2017
interview

As the world deals with a refugee crisis arising from wars in Syria and parts of the Middle East, Nigeria is also dealing with its own internal refugee crisis. The Boko Haram insurgency has led to widespread displacement of people in the North-east of the country. Homes and whole communities have been destroyed, and survivors have had to trudge to camps set up by state and federal governments, making IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) a familiar acronym in Nigeria.

In this exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES' Ebuka Onyeji, the health facilitator at the IDPs camp in New Kuchingoro, Abuja, Owhin Eguonor-Oghene, spoke about how the German Embassy set up the health clinic at the camp and the challenges of managing the facility. He also spoke about the continuing problems of unhygienic environment and inadequate health personnel at the camp.

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