Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, the Executive Director, UNFPA also disclosed that in the last one year, the organisation had taken deliveries of over 16,000 pregnancies in the troubled north eastern part of Nigeria.
While giving an update on the response to the rehabilitation of the rescued women and children, Osotimehin said the organisation has put in place a formidable team in collaboration with the Federal Government and state government in anticipation of the magnitude of problem at hand.
Prof. Osotimehin disclosed that the first task is to restore the dignity of the girls who are facing severe psycho-social trauma especially as many were raped and impregnated.
Prof. Osotimehin said that over 200 of the rescued girls are in different stages of pregnancy,
"What we found is that some of the women and girls that have come back actually have much more in terms of the stress they have faced, so the counselling has to be more intense andworking with them one-on-one."
"I'm glad the communities are not excommunicating them and are taking them back. That is an important therapy too. We anticipate this is going to escalate because the military intervention is continuing, we find that more people are now needing our services and we will continue". he said
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