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UNEP: 1,200 indigent Ogonis to benefit from free medical outreach

By Abdallah el-Kurebe
April 16, 2018
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The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) is targeting 1,200 indigent Ogonis in its free medical outreach in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers.

The Project Coordinator of HYPREP, Dr Marvin Dekil while flagging-off the second phase of the exercise on Monday in Taabaa community, said the exercise was to prevent, detect and treat victims of hydrocarbon pollution in Ogoniland in line with the recommendations of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report.

“The health outreach is the first step toward the implementation of the initial stage of the Health Impact Study as recommended in the UNEP Report on Ogoniland. The exercise will be carried out in the four local government areas that make up Ogoniland for a period of eight days.

“Over 6,000 patients with different ailments were treated and surgeries performed in the first phase of the outreach in 2017. In this second phase, we will carry out general consultations, dental and eye treatment and surgical operations among other medical services. This is a continuation of what we started in 2017; to provide medical services to the communities as well as gather more data for our health impact study,” he said.

Dekil said that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the second phase of the medical outreach and directed kickoff of the remediation process in the next couple of months.

He said the project would soon provide potable drinking water to communities affected by years of environmental degradation in the areas.

According to him, the water supply system and services that will be provided will meet World Health Organisation’s standards.

“Also, we will in the coming weeks launch HYPREP’s Livelihood Intervention Programme that seeks to expose indigent Ogoni women and youths to skills for wealth creation,” he said.

President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Mr Lergborsi Pyagbara urged the people to exercise patience in the cleanup project.

He said the cleanup exercise might not be successful without the restoration of the means of livelihood of the people and remediation of the immediate health challenges they are facing.

“The medical outreach programme is a welcome development and it is something that we feel should continue across the length of the cleanup exercise,” he said.

Pyagbara blamed the delay in the cleanup to bureaucratic bottlenecks in the Federal Ministry of Environment and demanded for an independent and autonomous HYPREP.

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