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US charity treats prisoners

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    A US charity, International Prisons Fraternity (IPF), has provided medical care and drugs worth 30 million CFA francs (US $38,945) to 3,000 prisoners in Benin, the Panafrican News Agency reported on Thursday. PANA said IPF volunteer doctors, dentists and nurses arrived in Benin on 25 May and have treated prisoners in the main city of Cotonou as well as Abomey, Lokossa and Parakou. Ailments covered by the group working with its local affiliate, Fraternite Beninois Prisons, included kidney infections, malaria, scabies, hypertension and eye diseases, the report said.

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