by JAMES ABRAHAM

Over 2,000 internally displaced persons, IDPs, taking refuge in Jos, Plateau State capital, yesterday received free medical services.

The free medical treatment was organised by Tina Bawa Ministries, TBM, a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, in partnership with Stephanos Foundation.

National Mirror learnt that the displaced persons, mostly women and children, were those who escaped the Boko Haram onslaught in the north eastern part of the country with their homes and properties destroyed by the insurgents.

Coordinator of Tina Bawa Ministries, Mrs Tina Bawa, told journalists at the camp that she was moved by the plight of the displaced persons, hence the free medical service.

“We don’t just want to sit down and talk, we want to do something about their condition,” she said, while lamenting the condition they were facing in the camp.

She appealed to the Federal Government to come to the aid of the IDPs, who are camping in different locations in the state.

According to her, “most of these IDPs don’t have any place they can call home any longer. I am appealing to the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to come to their aid,” she added.

Also speaking, Coordinator of Stephanos Foundation, Mark Lipdo, disclosed that the IDPs camp was opened in Jos to displaced families from the North East on November 1, 2014, at Zang Secondary Commercial School, Bukuru, Jos South Local Government Council