Nigeria Plans Trauma Centre For Accident Victims

In a bid to springiness much attraction to the plight of the victims of Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) and their families, Nigeria volition big the maiden International Road Crash Victims Africa Conference (IRCVAC).

This is adjacent arsenic LEADERSHIP has learnt that the Kwapda’as Road Safety Demand (KRSD) Foundation, successful collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), was readying to found a nationalist trauma centre that volition cater for the needs of the victims of roadworthy crashes and their household members.

These were revealed astatine a associated property league successful Abuja, organised by the Federal Road Safety Corps and the Kwapda’as Road Safety Demand Foundation.

Speaking astatine the conference, the corps marshal of FRSC, Shehu Mohammed, said that the planetary roadworthy clang victims Africa conference, scheduled for November, 2025, would absorption connected the plight of roadworthy clang victims crossed the continent.

He said that erstwhile planetary roadworthy mishap and clang wounded conferences had often emphasised high-income countries, with small attraction fixed to the victims of roadworthy postulation crashes and the request to code this spread necessitated the concern betwixt the FRSC and KRSD to big the African variation of the conference.

He explained that, “The essence of this league is to bring technocrats, professionals and experts successful roadworthy mishap and clang injuries, roadworthy transport, postulation and information management, and medication from each implicit the satellite to showcase our country, our continent, and our metropolis of Abuja.”

While speaking, the laminitis of KRSD, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, said the conference, guided by the taxable “Gathering Africa and the World for Road Crash Victims,” would beryllium the archetypal dedicated African forum focused connected victims of roadworthy crashes and their families.

Dongban-Mensem, who established the KRSD Foundation connected September 30, 2011, successful representation of her precocious son, said the instauration was celebrating its 14th day with renewed committedness to roadworthy information advocacy crossed Africa.

According to her, the league would bring unneurotic governments, backstage organisations, civilian society, victims’ groups, and the planetary roadworthy information assemblage to enactment decisively successful reducing the toll of roadworthy crashes successful Africa.

She listed the pre-conference broadside events to see cycling, walking, and golfing activities.