The management team of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) has donated a consignment of different types of medicines, including antibiotics to the victims and their families of the bomb blast on Thursday at Jimeta Modern Market in Yola, Adamawa state.
A delegation of the university, led by Vice President Byron Bullock, representing President, Margee Ensign distributed the medicines
at the neighboring Federal Medical Centre, Yola, where they also sympathized with the victims.
According to the Director of AUN Clinic, Philip Eappen, some of the medical provisions were diverted from the University’s Clinic on humanitarian grounds.
Mr. Bullock told the Federal Medical Centre’s Head of Clinical Services, Mr. Bemi Kala, that AUN was there to commiserate with the victims and provide support to aid their treatment.
As at the time of the visit, the number of the burned and injured could not be immediately ascertained. Victims were placed in an improvised ward normally used as labuor room.
Mr. Kala said that those who had severe cases were brought from the Specialist Hospital in Jimeta and that some of them needed urgent surgery.
Dr. Abdulfatai Salawu, the Deputy Head of Clinic Services, and other clinical staff were present. The AUN delegation also included the immediate past President of the Student Government Association, Mr. Joseph Oladimeji.
