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Nigeria supports Boko Haram victims with health program: official

Xinhua, April 11, 2017 Adjust font size:

Nigeria has inaugurated a Mental Health and Psycho-social Support Program for victims of Boko Haram insurgency in restive northeast region, a top official said Tuesday.

The health sector response is part of the government's interventions toward restoring normalcy in the area, Osagie Ehanire, Nigeria's Minister of State for Health told a news conference in Maiduguri, the birthplace of terror group Boko Haram.

Ehanire pointed out that the Health Sector Response was one of the strategic interventions of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration toward rebuilding the sub region.

Service providers will be deployed to Primary Health Care facilities, the minister added, noting that others would reach out to communities and carry out house-to-house visits to identify and respond to community members who require support.

Boko Haram is blamed for more than 20,000 deaths and displacement of 2.3 million people since 2009. Endit