“We have a medical facility and it has a operating theatre. I have directed my medical team to make the place ready for surgery cases.”
Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has deployed a special medical team to flooded communities in Bayelsa and Delta states to offer free medical assistance.
Several communities in Sagbama, Kolokuma/Opokuma, Yenagoa, Southern Ijaw, Ekeremor and Ogbia have been badly affected by the flood, with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) disclosing that 150,000 people have been displaced in the state.
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Governor Henry Seriake Dickson had recently appealed for help from the Federal Government wondering why Bayelsa was omitted from the list of states the federal government declared flood emergency.
Abubakar, who disclosed the deployment of the medical team in Yenagoa on Thursday during the flag…
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