Boko Haram: Nine babies delivered in IDP camp in Gombe

                           

                      No fewer than nine babies including twins have been delivered at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Gombe by pregnant women who fled the Boko Haran crisis in Borno State.
The women who delivered the babies are among the over 1, 624  displaced persons in Damboa Local Government Area  in Borno State  following Boko Haram insurgents attack.
                    The Senior Relief and Rehabilitation Officer, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Gombe Operations office, Ali Kadiri Moses gave the figures in an interview with newsmen in Bauchi.
Kadiri said: “There are a lot of pregnant women in the camp. I’m particular about a woman who gave birth to twins and eight other pregnant women that gave birth successfully in the camp and all the babies are doing well.”


           He spoke shortly after he delivered a paper entitled, “Emergency Evacuation and Mass Sheltering for Communities Prone to Flood and related disasters” at a workshop organised by NEMA Gombe Operations Office.
Kadiri said NEMA is adequately taking care of the babies, nursing mothers and the entire Internally Displayed Persons (IDPs) saying that their number is increasing by the day.
He observed that the number of the IDPs keeps increasing on a daily basis and as a result NEMA is challenged in terms of ascertaining the figure of the IDPs and to even plan for their daily feeding.
            He said: “At the moment, I cannot be very specific about the number of IDPs but about weeks ago, we have 1,624 on our list but from that time to now they keep coming into the camp and we are taking good care of them.”
He applauded the Gombe state government for providing the newly built Police quarters where NEMA camping the IDPs but decried inadequate of teachers and appealed to qualified persons to come to the aid of pupils.
The acting Head of Operation, Zainab Umar Ali sued for harmony, corporation and effective coordination among stakeholders in disasters management both by government and non-government humanitarian organisation.
Zainab  called on stakeholders at the workshop to frequently ask questions and suggest ways of building strong synergy amongst them such that may enable them achieve the best global practice in disaster management.
            On his part, the Senior Operation Officer Alhaji Saidu Inusa  argued that in case of bomb blast people who rushed in too early render are exposed to a lot risk and hazards at the scenes.
He said that they are vulnerable to such as secondary explosions, unstable and falling materials, flying objects, contaminated air and water, smoke and fire, heavy light, and excessive noise and dust.
Inusa in a paper titled “Safety Measures and Mass Causality Handling at Scenes of Bomb Explosion”, said the biggest challenge of NEMA how to identified looters and miscreants who often rush into the scene of any disaster incidents to loot as well as those get there to snap pictures and post them on social media as such people hindered smooth rescue operation