{"id":79792,"date":"2025-12-08T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79792"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:12:45","slug":"wassa-idps-beg-amac-to-reopen-abandoned-health-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/08\/wassa-idps-beg-amac-to-reopen-abandoned-health-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Wassa IDPs Beg AMAC to Reopen Abandoned Health Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Residents of the Wassa IDP Camp in the FCT have appealed to the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), to reopen the camp\u2019s Primary Healthcare Centre, which has been locked since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The facility, donated in 2016 by former House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara, was shut after a dispute between residents and a doctor deployed by the FCT Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Although camp leaders say they have since apologised, the clinic has remained closed, leaving thousands, especially women and children without access to basic medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Camp vice chairman, Malam Usman Ibrahim, said the situation has become unbearable.<br \/>\n\u201cWomen and children suffer the most. We travel long distances for treatment and often contribute money for transport,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled past incidents where lack of healthcare led to deaths during cholera outbreaks and childbirth complications.<\/p>\n<p>He urged AMAC to restore services and deploy another doctor.<br \/>\n\u201cWe just want the centre reopened, equipped, and staffed,\u201d he appealed.<\/p>\n<p>Women leader, Mrs. Hafsatu Haman, said the closure has worsened hardship in the camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen our children fall sick, there is nowhere to take them. The only hospital for us is locked,\u201d she lamented, calling for government and NGO support.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach AMAC officials for comments were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Residents of the Wassa IDP Camp in the FCT have appealed to the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), to reopen the camp\u2019s Primary Healthcare Centre, which has been locked since 2022. The facility, donated in 2016 by former House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara, was shut after a dispute between residents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79794,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79792\/revisions\/79794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}