Health
THE Victims Support Fund (VSF) has promised to renovate some Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) facilities in Benue.
The Chairperson, Emergency Support Programme of VSF, Mrs Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji, made the promise on Thursday in Okpute Community in Oju Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.
Akerele-Ogunsiji said the renovation which would start soon would give the PHCs a facelift with supply of both medical and non medical consumables.
“It is our desire to see that the primary healthcare facilities in the state offer quality services to the rural dwellers,” she said.
Akerele-Ogunsiji said they want to make life worth living for the vulnerable and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the society through the VSF emergency support programme.
She said the Fund also supplied foodstuff, medical and non- medical consumables to the IDPs to ensure that people who deserted their ancestral homes because of violence to return.
The chairperson lamented that 21 out of 23 LGAs in the state were affected by one form of violence or the other.
According to her, VSF will give economic grants to the IDPs and the vulnerable people as well as sink a borehole for the community.
The VSF State Programme Coordinator, Miss Kwaghe Jonah, said that they had been providing foodstuff, medical and non-medical consumables to some areas affected by insecurity in the state since April.
Jonah said that 800 households in Okpute Community benefited from the foodstuff supply.(NAN)
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