Frail and malnourished children and women lay on rows of hospital beds, their bodies bearing the scars of six months of captivity deep in the Nigerian bush.
The patients were among 163 kidnapping victims rescued earlier this month in the Kainji Lake National Park forest, after their village, Woro, was attacked by suspected jihadists.
In total, 308 people were freed in what the government called the largest single day rescue operation.
But at the Kwara State University Teaching Hospital in Ilorin, a long road to recovery lay ahead as victims deal with both the physical and psychological trauma.
A child lay beneath a blue sheet, hooked to a respirator, with doctors and nurses clustered around the bed. A sobbing girl, no more than six years old, sat alone on a bed, her family yet to visit.
