Non availability of highway ambulance, towing vehicles harmper our operations –FRSC
Val Okara Owerri
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Imo state command has identify non availability of Ambulance and heavy duty towing vehicles as major impediment to its operation.
The Sector Commander Mr. Joseph Kayode Aremu raised the alarm at weekend during at the flag off of the Iwuanyanwu National Ambulance – an organization established to intervene in helping victims of accidents and insurgence and in providing medical and humanitarian support to internally displaced people and the downtrodden,
Aremu who attributed the upsurge of road accidents in the state to the recklessness of motorists with utter disregard to traffic rules and regulation .He also said that lack of Ambulance now compels the FRSC in the state to use patrol vehicles to rush accident victims to hospitals
The state FRSC sector Commander was represented by his personal Assistant, Ernest Festus Emmanuel, Aremu commended the organization for coming on board to partner with the FRSC to save lives on the Highways, even as he enjoined other well meaning Nigerians to borrow a leaf from the body to complement the efforts of the FRSC to save more lives.
The founder of the Iwuanyanwu National Ambulance . Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu in his remarks, regretted that the nation had continued to lose lives especially through road accidents as a result of lack of blood and non availability of Ambulance to rush such victims to nearby hospitals for urgent medical attention.
“Nigeria today records the highest rate of road accident and my Ambulance is meant to complement the effort of the FRSC in saving lives and especially during these ember months. This organization has no political coloration whatsoever and we are also prepared to assist in times of war because the world today is afflicted with wars and there is need therefore to have good Nigerians and good volunteer groups to assist those who have problem.”
Chief Iwuanyanwu added that the organization would be established in all the 36 states of the federation and the FCT where people in need of help cold obtain quick medical services.
The National coordinator of the organization – Chinedu Nsofor in a brief profile said that the body has the vision to lead a major private sector international in the provision of humanitarian supports and funding in the health sector in the country.
He listed the aims and objectives of the foundation to include: provision of first Aid and humanitarian services to victims of accidents and insurgency, raising of international funds for victims of accidents and insurgency and the IDP, mobilization and facilitation of private sector involvement and intervention in the humanitarian and medical first Aid needs of accident and educate the general public through seminars, conference, workshops, symposia and the media on first Aid, health safety and precautionary measures for averting accidents.
