Road Safety Commends HEI For Saving More than 200 Accident Victims - Naija Latest News - 30/01/2018

The Federal Road Security Corps (FRSC) has commended the Well being Emergency Initiative (HEI) for giving prompt help and help to save the lives of more than 200 accident victims in the last two years.

Mr Hyginus Omeje, the Lagos State Sector Commander of FRSC, gave the commendation on Sunday in the course of a " Five-kilometre Walk, Carnival and Charity programme’’ organised by HEI in Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that HEI is a non-profit generating organization established to help victims of road accidents by offsetting their hospital bills.

The stroll was sponsored by Cost Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), an audit firm.

Omeje, who was represented by Mrs Ololade Mala, Sector Assistant Route Commander, FRSC, mentioned that HEI saved lots of crash victims’ lives via prompt intervention and payment of hospital bills.

"The HEI, a non-profit organisation, has completed so effectively in saving the lives of accident victims via its rapid intervention to them at all occasions.

"An instance is the recent crash at the Kara Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway the organisation helped to make some payments to the state hospitals where they had currently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

"This enabled the victims to acquire prompt remedy to save their lives ahead of their relatives were contacted.

"This is in sync with component of the 2017 Strategic Objectives of FRSC the aim to boost enforcement and post crash care by decreasing visitors crash by 15 per cent and fatality by 25 per cent.

"The HEI has been undertaking tremendous perform to make sure that the lives of indigent and vulnerable victims are not lost as a outcome of road crashes,’’ he mentioned.

In his remarks, Mr Paschal Achunine, the Executive Director of HEI, mentioned that the initiative was set up to assistance and revive critically injured accident victims.

"An accident injured victim is a vulnerable individual no matter how wealthy, highly effective or poor the individual might be.

"From October 2015 till date, we have assisted more than 200 accident victims via the partnership involving HEI, FRSC and the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS).

"We don’t want a case where anybody will bleed to death as outcome of accident on the road.

"That is why we set up the overall health emergency initiative to assist accident victims by prompt payment of the bills at the common hospitals.

"A lot of victims have died since of their inabilities to pay only N2,000 or N3,000 therapy charges.

"This should not be acceptable in a country exactly where you see and study screaming headlines in newspapers that say billions on naira have been going into private pockets it is unfair,’’ Achunine mentioned.

The director, having said that, appealed to other stakeholders to emulate the PWC by supporting the organisation.

According to him, this will hugely contribute to save the lives of a lot of individuals from road accidents.

Also, Mrs Obioma Ubah of the Corporate Duty, Diversity and Inclusion, PWC, commended HEI for the great job it was doing to save many accident victims’ lives.

"We have seen the sincerity in the organisation.

"That is why we pitched our tent with them, to give them the assistance they deserve,’’ Ubah stated.