Yuletide: FRSC Embarks On Free Medical Tests For Commercial Drivers

As part of efforts to safeguard lives and property on the highway during the yuletide, the Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC has embarked on free medical tests to ascertain the health status of commercial drivers.

At the occasion at Nyanya Baba Nagode Park, Abuja, the FCT Sector Commender of FRSC, Mr Felix Thelman, said the outreach is to further sensitize drivers on the need to always take care of their health.

He said the Corp has activated all the roadside clinics and Zebra points with officers assigned to attend to emergencies.

According to him, officers and men have been mobilized with adequate logistics to all identified flash points to ensure free flow of traffic and prompt rescue operations.

According to Thelman “with the volume of travel we experience and the volume of traffic on the road, we feel that it is important that we do not only focus on the violation and offences that drivers normally commit, we are also concerned about what they need to do.”

“For this ember month we have already put all machinery in place, flash points where we are expecting grid locks we have already made sufficient development to ensure that those places we don’t have a repeat of the previous years”

“Every year, we always make arrangements to provide road camps in specific locations, especially on the major corridors.”

‘We are collaborating with some hospitals in Abuja, and some other organisations like the Lion club, pharmaceutical association of Nigeria, they are all here, to put our heads together towards ensuring that, with good health, drivers will also drive better”.

“We felt it is also important to look at the health of the drivers. If you look at our theme this year, we said healthy drivers and safer roads.

Interacting with the medical team led by Isioma Aresuku, she said their organisations partner the Road Safety Corps to give back to society by ensuring that drivers are healthy to safeguard their lives on the highways.

The FRSC medical outreach carried out free blood sugar and eye tests with free eye glasses, among others.

Florence Adewale, Edited By Grace Namiji