FOR IMMEDIATE Release
16th May 2025
Jos, Nigeria
Displaced families to receive lifesaving health services on Saturday, 17 May
2025
The Dr. Isa El-Buba Foundation will conduct a one-day free medical outreach at the Mangu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp in Plateau State on Saturday, 17 May 2025. The outreach will provide comprehensive primary-health consultations, essential medicines, malaria testing and treatment, maternal-child health services, psychosocial support, and health-education sessions for residents who have fled the recent wave of violence across Plateau communities.
Over the past months, a spate of deadly attacks has shattered livelihoods,
forced thousands from their homes, and strained the already fragile health-
care system. Many IDPS now live in overcrowded camps with limited access
to doctors, sanitation, or nutritious food, conditions that heighten the risk of
preventable illness and long-term trauma.
“Every consultation, every dose of medicine, and every reassuring word
offered tomorrow will translate into renewed hope for a family that has lost
almost everything,” said Dr. Isa El-Buba, Founder of the Foundation.
“Health is the first step toward recovery and rebuilding.”
Expected Impact of the outreach include Medical relief for 1,000+ IDPS by on-site clinicians, pharmacists, and counsellors will treat acute and chronic conditions, with referral pathways for severe cases, focused antenatal check-ups, immunisations, and nutrition counselling aim to avert preventable
deaths among pregnant women and children under five, trauma-informed
counsellors will offer group and one-on-one sessions to help survivors
process grief and anxiety and Camp residents will receive hygiene kits and
practical training to curb disease outbreaks.
Humanitarian needs in Plateau State now far exceed the capacity of
government agencies alone. The Dr. Isa El-Buba Foundation, therefore, calls
on corporate bodies, civil-society partners, faith communities, and
individual philanthropists to mobilise resources, medical supplies,
nutritious food, shelter materials, and volunteer expertise to complement
ongoing relief efforts.
“Our nation’s strength is measured by how we treat the most vulnerable
among us,” noted Dr. Agbaji Orinya, Programme Coordinator of the
Foundation. “We invite all well-meaning Nigerians to stand with displaced
families in Plateau and beyond. Together we can lighten their burden and
restore dignity and hope.”
The Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the lives
of underserved Nigerians through health outreach, educational support,
youth empowerment, and social justice advocacy. In the past two years
alone, it has delivered scholarships, medical missions in remote
communities, road construction, sensitisation campaigns against gender-
based violence in Plateau, and orphanage support programmes.
Media Contact:
Programme Coordination Office
Dr. Isa El-Buba Foundation
Email: drisaelbubafoundation@gmail.com
Phone/WhatsApp: +234 (0) 9046431363
Signed,
Dr. Agbaji Orinya
Programme Coordinator
Dr. Isa El-Buba Foundation
