Medics available on passenger trains — NRC

The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Freeborn Okhiria, said that one of the organisation’s medical personnel, assisted by another, tried unsuccessfully to revive the policeman that lost his life aboard a train on Thursday.

Okhiria said this in a statement in Lagos on Tuesday, dismissing allegations that the corporation had no medical facilities on board its trains.

A police escort attached to the Abuja-Kaduna route died on board a train on Thursday, after allegedly developing chest pain.

The train was said to be conveying passengers from Kaduna to Abuja.

Okhiria debunked insinuations that inadequate attention, allegedly due to lack of NRC medical personnel onboard the train, led to the late police officer’s death.

Okhiria said that NRC trains have well trained medical personnel and equipped medical cubicle, to attend to any emergency health challenges of passengers.

He gave the name of the medical staff on duty on the train on which the incident occured as Mariam Abdulai.

Okhiria said that Abdulai was assisted by a good samaritan medical practitioner that happened to be a passenger on board to revive the ailing cop, but it was in futility.

“The management of the NRC expresses its heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family of the late Police Insp. Name ButSelbol, who was escort on duty in Abuja–Kaduna Train service on that fateful day,” he said.