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Some 1.1 mln IDPs in Nigeria lack health services: UN

Xinhua, August 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

At least 1.1 million Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) in camps and within communities in northeast Nigeria's Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States lack lifesaving integrated health services, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said Tuesday.

The IDPs were in dire need of maternal health, psycho-social and mental health services, among others, Habib Kori, a spokesperson for UNFPA Nigeria, said in a statement reaching Xinhua.

The statement added that the health facilities in the affected states, if not totally or partially destroyed, were constrained, without adequate staffing and insufficient supplies of equipment to meet the health needs of the population.

The spokesperson said that the available resources for humanitarian programming for 2016 are only able to address the health needs of 2.6 million people out of the 3.7 million that are in dire need of humanitarian services.

"30 percent of the IDPs and those within host communities that require Gender Based Violence services do not have access to these critical services," Kori said.

She said the UNFPA humanitarian program assisted more than 120 health care facilities and nine safe spaces for women and girls between 2015 and July 2016, benefiting an estimated 960,000 people. Endit