Commissioner opens special protection unit in Yambio hospital

March 7, 2016 (YAMBIO) – Gender-based activists working in collaboration with the state government have established a special protection unit in Yambio referral state hospital to provide psychosocial counseling and treatment services to wounded people.

The health unit was initiated by the state ministry of gender, child and social welfare, through activists with support from UN agencies such as UNDP, UNICEF and WHO.

The Commissioner of Yambio county, Hussein Enocka said says the health facility will serve both men, women and children who live in Yambio county.

“This facility is not only for women to get services for it, but for both men and women because women also are beating and knifing their husbands to death according to police report,” said Hussein.

Hussein urged both men and women to focus on behavior change and to love their partners as to live in harmony and promote peace among the community.

The mayor of Yambio municipal Council, Daniel Badagbo lauded efforts by the UN to bring services closer to the victims in the hospital enabling them to get timely treatment.

He said government will work hand in hand with the unit to see into it that the security of the hospital is at its peak. The fence, he said, is on progress and about to be completed.

Veronica Anni, a social worker in the ministry of gender, child and social welfare said the newly established would help the hospital handle any form of emergencies, whether they are domestic-related forms of violences, accidents or cases of a psychological nature.

(ST)