Some victims of the latest terror attack in Mubi, admitted at the Mubi General Hospital are responding to treatment, the Principal Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Ezra Sakawa, disclosed on Wednesday in Mubi, Adamawa.
Sakawa made the disclosure when he received officials of the Victim Support Fund, who visited the hospital to console the victims.
He said that the hospital received 48 victims, eight of whom died, while 15 others were referred to the Federal Medical Centre in Yola.
He said: “The ones with us are now in stable condition and responding to treatment.”
Sakawa lauded VSF for its support to the hospital, soliciting more drugs for the hospital to cater for the growing demand caused by the bombing.
On November 21, a terrorist set off a bomb in a mosque in the commercial city of Mubi, killing scores and injuring others, in what appears to be a recurring tragedy in Nigeria’s northeast.
On November 19, the Islamic Boko Haram group beheaded six farmers at a plantation in Dimge community in the Mafa Local Government Area of Borno.
Boko Haram has remained steadfast in its deadly attacks in the northeast, although the Federal Government has deployed the armed forces, to check the insurgency.
No fewer than 20,000 people have been killed since the insurgency started nine years ago with over 2.8 million people displaced, according to analysts.
Speaking while condoling the blast victims, the Executive Director of VSF, Prof. Sunday Ochoche, lauded the management of Mubi General Hospital for the prompt attention given to the victims.
He said the visit of the VSF team was to console the victims and assess the situation to know where to render support to the hospital.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria at the hospital reports that the VSF team interacted with the victims and also inspected a water project funded by VSF in the hospital.
The VSF team included Ambassador John Gana, the Secretary of the body and Prof. Nana Tanko, the Director of Programmes of the fund.