VSF Purchases Ambulances For Benue Community

Three tricycle ambulances have been purchased to be given to the Senatorial District in Benue by the Victims Support Fund (VSF)

A member of the VSF Special Intervention Team, Sunday Oibe, disclosed this during the distribution of food items to Gbajimba and Ortese Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps in the Guma Local Government Area of the state.

Oibe said each senatorial district would be given one ambulance “to address the shortage of ambulances, especially in the hinterland and in IDP camps.

“This is made possible through the support of the Chairman of VSF, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma.

“Our chairman has responded swiftly to the cry of Gov. Samuel Ortom that well-meaning Nigerians should come to the aid
of the IDPs, whose number keeps increasing every day.”

He lamented that the situation of the IDPs was pathetic, adding that most children at the various camps were malnourished.

He said that VSF had plans to attend to the medical needs of the IDPs by supplying them with drugs.

“We did a thorough diligence of needs assessment and we have discovered all that they need,” he said.

Mndepawe Kwaghe, the State Project Coordinator,  said that the fund was targeting 1,300 households to be supplied food items in the two camps.

She added that “300 households are targeted at Gbajimba camp, while 1,000 households are targeted at the Ortese camp.

“We are hopeful that peace will soon be restored in feuding communities because we are planning to commence a peacebuilding
process.”

Some of the beneficiaries appreciated VSF for the gesture, which they said would go a long way in alleviating their suffering.