The Nigerian Air Force says it has begun a five-day medical outreach for nearly 4,000 Internally Displaced Persons in Bayelsa.
Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
Daramola said the medical intervention holding at Igbogene Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area was an initiative of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar.
He said that Abubakar had directed the NAF Medical Services unit to take the necessary steps to ameliorate the suffering of the victims of the flood.
The director quoted Abubakar as saying that NAF would always be ready to deploy its resources in alleviating the hardship faced by Nigerians.
CAS urged the IDPs to take advantage of the high quality and free medical services that would be provided for them. He said that eye surgeries would be carried out at the NAF Medical Centre in Yenagoa.
The director said that the chief of air staff was represented at the opening ceremony by the Air Officer Commanding Mobility Command, AVM Napoleon Bali.
He said that some of the beneficiaries of the outreach, which also has officials from the Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency, State Ministry of Health and Nigerian Red Cross Society, who were in attendance, expressed appreciation to NAF.
(NAN)
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