FRSC PROVIDES FREE MEDICAL SUPPORT FOR 0VER THREE THOUSAND TO FCT RESIDENTS

As part of its social responsibility to the society the Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC has provided Free health care services to over Three Thousand residents of Ushafa in Bwari Area Council of the federal capital territory.

The President Road Safety Officers’ Wives Association, ROSOWA, Dr Nafisat Shehu Mohammed said the gesture was to enhance the living standard of rural dwellers.

Represented by Mrs Sadiyat Hafiz, the ROSOWA President said the medical outreach was also part of activities to make the rural dwellers friendly to the traffic management agency.

Dr Mohammed appealed to the people of Ushafa to always keep their environments clean and avoid dumping refuse on the road and water ways.

She stressed that ROSOWA would continue to embark on sensitization programs to check road accidents in rural areas.

The FCT Sector Commander of FRSC Mr Mutaa Chorrie said the free medical outreach was also to make road users healthy and fit to drive on the road.

According to the Sector Commander, it is only a healthy person who can sit behind the wheel.

Mr Chorrie said the program would also make rural dwellers know that FRSC has other programmes aside arrests and prosecution of traffic offenders.

Also speaking, the FCT Chairperson Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Mrs Salamotu Orakwelu, believes that the partnership with FRSC in providing free drugs would enhance effective traffic management in the country.

Mrs Orakwelu announced that the Association would also provide drugs and other support to FRSC clinics in the federal capital terrory.

The Hakimi of Ushafa, represented by Chief Solomon Awulo, commended FRSC for carrying out the outreach in the community.

Chief Awulo said the free medical care would in no small way reduce maternal mortality and child killer diseases in the community.

A medical practitioner, Dr Olutomi Sodipo, while giving some medical tips, advised residents to always keep their environments clean and seek medical attention when necessary.

Dr Sodipo also appealed to pregnant women to always use treated mosquito nets distributed free during the medical outreach.

Other medical organizations and Special Marshals of FRSC in their separate messages commended the residents of Ushafa, especially women, for coming out enmass for the free medical care.

They also pledged to support FRSC in its efforts at making the road safer for socio-economic activities to thrive in the FCT.