Most Nigerian hospitals lack equipment – FRSC

 The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) said on Wednesday that most hospitals in Nigeria lacked the essential equipment and manpower to handle trauma cases.
The Public Education Officer of the commission, Jos sector command, Mr Badamasi Sa’idu, made the disclosure during a sensitisation workshop organised by the commission for staff of ministry of Housing and Urban Development.
He stressed that the situation has made the country unable to sustain road traffic injuries.
“Developing countries like Nigeria most times cannot provide health care service that can sustain road traffic crash injuries.

“Many of our hospitals lack the essential equipment and supplies for handling trauma cases.
“Our country has no injury surveillance system that can generate reliable data on road traffic crash and injury.
“Most times, the non-fatal ones are not monitored and this makes comparison difficult. ’’
He said that the mandatory thirty days of post crashes injury were not usually regarded because of paucity of materials.
Sa’idu also said that under reporting of road traffic fatalities and injuries amongst the law enforcers and other health bodies has limited the use of information for road safety planning.
According to him, there has never been well-articulated life insurance scheme designed for road traffic crashes victims in both government and private organisations in the country.
He said that the situation had always aggravated the pains of the victims and their relations, as they could not make any claim for the loss uncured.
Earlier, the state’s Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Mr Solomon Maren, thanked the commission for the initiative.
Maren thanked FRSC for choosing his ministry for the awareness campaign, saying that the campaign would go a long way to aid them ascertain the rudiments of road usage.
The theme of the sensitisation campaign was “Safety on Nigerian roads and the expectation of FRSC from road users”. (NAN)*