By Franklyn ISONG
Barely 24 hours after the convoy of the Managing Director of the Niger
Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Nsima Ekere, was involved in a
ghastly auto-crash along Calabar-Itu Highway, the NDDC boss has visited
the victims of the accident at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital,
Uyo, today, June 2, 2017.
Mr Ekere
was on his way to Calabar, Cross River state, yesterday, to receive the
Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, when a truck rammed into his
convoy causing the death of a policeman instantly, and another who died
in the hospital. The accident left some victims who were rushed to the
UUTH with various degree of injuries.
At the hospital, the NDDC MD
who was received by doctors at the Accident and Emergency Care Unit of
the UUTH led by the head of the Unit, Dr Chris Enoch, and the President
of the Residents Doctors Association of the UUTH, Dr Aniekan Utuk,
sympathised with the victims of the accident and prayed for their quick
recovery.
He assured that their hospital bills would be paid by the
NDDC and comforted members of the victims’ families whom he met in the
hospital during the visit. He stated that the commission would not
abandon the victims and their families.
Radar Newspapers account
indicates that six policemen and one civilian were on admission as a
result of the accident and were responding to medical treatment as at
the time of the visit.
This paper gathered that the driver of the
truck is said to be in the police custody, while his conductor who
sustained injury was among those admitted in the hospital.
Meanwhile, Ekere, while on the visit, also paid the medical bills of two
patients who were not part of the accident and were not also known to
him.
He was simply moved by compassion when he sighted the patients with
pathetic health situations on his way out of the hospital.
One of the patients, Mr Friday Johnson Udoh, who hail from Etim Ekpo local government area is suffering from severe body burnt caused by kerosene explosion in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. And the other, Mr Emmanuel Enosek from Ikot Ekpene local government area is at the risk of loosing his right leg after loosing the left leg to the same injury.
Source...ADAR NEWSPAPER
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