IDPs await minister with full list of expectations

Internally displaced persons at Mawingu transitional camp in Nyandarua are preparing for a visit by Special Programmes minister Esther Murugi with one main concern - they want to know whether the government will resettle them now that a new constitutional dispensation is in place.

The 11,400 IDPs also want the government to address the issue of outbreak of diseases.

They want Ms Murugi to tell them whether she will deploy more medical staff at the camp and provide them with enough medicines.

Cases of malaria, water borne and respiratory diseases are on the rise at the camp. Mr James Mwangi, a volunteer clinical officer, says about 100 cases of pneumonia in adults are reported every month.

“We have only one small clinic at the whole camp which is serving our whole population,” Mr Mwangi said.

He added: “We are overwhelmed by the cases of respiratory and water-borne diseases at the clinic. Sometimes we are forced to refer the cases to the district hospital” he said.