By Asma’u Ahmad
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has promised to sustain its efforts at providing specialist care to the released Chibok girls and other victims of insurgency.
Secretary General of the association, Dr. Yusuf Sununu, made the pledge in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.
Dr. Sununu noted that the released Chibok girls were experiencing emotional and psychological torture, among other challenges.
He assured that NMA has the right capacity to provide medicare services and special care that would guarantee better future for the victims.
The general secretary identified areas of care to include psycho-social support, reintegrating them with their families, recommending necessary investigation, carrying out investigation, interpreting and recommending the desired services.
“We will educate the parents on the need to accept their children no matter the condition. Their families must accept them and understand that they did not subject themselves to that.
“For them to be reintegrated into the families parents must accept that those changes are there; must understand that they have passed through situations that may have changed their psychological outlook and behavior, among others,” he said.
However, Dr. Sununu stressed that the victims needed full support and assistance of family members, governments and other philanthropists to be fully reintegrated into the society.
He Sununu explained that a lot of them were held in captivity without babies but came back with babies, noting that this must have exposed them to varying sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
He said that they required thorough medical examination to ascertain if they have been infected with HIV, syphilis and other STDs.
Sununu who further noted that the girls were malnourished, however said the association would generate physical and laboratory investigation to ascertain the nutritional deficiency confronting them make adequate replacement of those elements.
It would be recalled that about 45 Chibok school girls had so far been rescued out of over 200 abducted in April 14, 2014, by Boko Haram insurgents.
