ASPIMSS to energize Trauma Centre
The General Manager, Abia State Passenger Integrated Manifest/Safety Scheme, ASPIMSS Kingsley Megwara, has revealed that energizing its trauma centre is what is uppermost in his mind as number one thing towards repositioning the scheme for better service.
Megwara who was addressing newsmen in Umuahia while on an official function in Umuoriehi isingwu, Umuahia North LGA Wednesday, assured he is determined to ensure that the trauma centre started by Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu when he was the General Manager of the outfit sees the light of day. “We will find a way of going back to the trauma centre. The centre is something that I so much want to energize so that as time goes on, we can get NYSC Doctors to man the place.”
He said further that in the event of non-life threatening accidents, “We can quickly take them (accident victims) to our own clinic and make sure we treat them.”
He notified that “ASPIMSS is the only agency removing dead bodies from the roads. When we see any dead body on the road, we make plans immediately to remove it because the hazard the dead body will in turn cause, either by motorists dodging the dead body and will have an accident or the medical problems involved, especially during the raining season, when the rains will filter back to the boreholes people drink.”
According to him, ASPIMSS is in better shape today than ever under him since its establishment, stating that Ikpeazu as the GM of the centre established the trauma centre as a mid-range hospital where ASPIMSS can treat people on non-life threatening accidents, while life-threatening issues are taken to the Federal Medical centre, Umuahia or Amachara General Hospital in Umuahia and Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba.
“We also have a relationship with volunteer Doctors from America who have volunteered a month each year to assist ASPIMSS”, he said.
Megwara also disclosed that for the last 15 years, the scheme has not been paying compensations, but we have set up a new office for compensation.
“When people pay, they have subscribed for compensation in view of accidents, but the only problem we have on that is that people do not take advantage of that,” he said disclosing that his administration has paid seven compensations since he came in as the GM, while also doing enlightenment for drivers on the dangers of drinking and driving, not obeying road signs, stating that the drivers have started having conforming to the pattern.
