Commissioner for Transportation, Enugu State, donates an ambulance to Godfrey Okoye University Teaching Hospital, Enugu
Commissioner for Transportation, Enugu State, Dr. Obi Ozor has donated an ambulance to Godfrey Okoye University Teaching Hospital, Enugu.
Correspondent Godwin Umeh reports that the key to the 18 seater-size Toyota Hurmer Bus was handed over to the Vice Chancellor of the university during a brief ceremony at the Thinkers Corner campus of the university.
In a speech, Dr. Ozor noted that Godfrey Okoye University Enugu had set the proper philosophy to train the next generation of people, stressing that the institution is focused on the needs which is to give proper education that would go beyond academic but the moral as well as other elements that would help to build proper human beings.
The Commissioner advised the management of the university to continue with the philosophy and sustain the identity, adding that people should see the ambulance as an opportunity to save life and that there was nothing wrong in being transported in an ambulance.
Responding, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Reverend Father Professor Christian Anieke expressed gratitude to Dr. Ozor for fulfilling his promise to donate an ambulance to the hospital and urged the workers to ensure proper and efficient use of the vehicle.
He made it clear that the ambulance is to get people to where they would get medical care, stressing that it was not an indication that such patient would die or that ambulance is for carrying dead bodies but to save life.
The Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Prof Cajetan Nwadinigiwe who had during the inauguration of the mother and child care unit of the hospital, listed ambulance as one of the essential needs of the hospital, described the donation as a welcome development.
According to Professor Nwadinigiwe, an ambulance is one of the critical Arm of any functional hospital and was happy that the Commissioner had given the institution that completeness of a hospital.
He described a hospital as a sanctuary which nobody knows who would use it and urged all Nigerians especially the wealthy to take the issue as a social responsibility and support the efforts of the management to make the teaching hospital effectively functional by providing more of the needed facilities.
