NRC: Police Escort Who Died on Duty Received Adequate Medical Attention Onboard

Wale Igbintade

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has disclosed that the policeman on escort duty who died onboard Kaduna-Abuja train on April 5 received adequate medical attention onboard.

In a statement it issued yesterday, it said it has well-trained medical personnel and equipped medical cubicle to attend to any health emergency of passengers riding their  train.

The statement added that contrary to the news making the rounds that there was no medical personnel on board, the medical personnel on duty was Mariam Abdulai who was assisted by a good Samaritan medical practitioner that happens to be on board to revive the ailing cop but was in futility.

Recalled that a police escort attached to the Abuja-Kaduna train reportedly died aboard the train while conveying passengers from Kaduna to Abuja on Thursday

The a statement read: “NRC management’s attention has been drawn to publication on various social and mainstream media on the non-availability of medical personnel on our passenger train which allegedly led to the inadequate attention leading to the late police officer’s death onboard Abuja-Kaduna passenger train.

“NRC management wishes to emphatically inform the general public that we have well trained medical personnel and equipped medical cubicle to attend to any emergency health challenges of our esteem passengers.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the medical personnel on duty was Mariam Abdulai who was assisted by a good Samaritan medical practitioner that happens to be our passenger on board to revive the ailing cop but was in futility.

“The management of the NRC express its heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family of the late police inspector, Nambut Selbol who was escort on duty in Abuja-Kaduna train service on that fateful day.”