18 of the 25 hospitalized Victims of the Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack have been discharged.
The CMD 44 Nigeria Reference Hospital, Col. Stephen Onochukwu disclosed this when the Minister of transportation Rotimi Amaechi paid a visit to the hospitalized Victims.
According to Col. Onuchukwu the patients are stable.
“The situation is that the clients we received from the incidents are all stable”.
“We had 25 of them that where admitted. We discharged some of them that are stable but we are still following them up. Currently we have seven of them still left in the hospital”.
He said they deployed theirr contingency resources to manage the situation so there are no challenges.
“There is none of the cases that is beyond us because we also have collaboration with the teaching hospitals sofar the expertise we do not have, we borrow the expertise to manage the patients”.
The Minister who expressed appreciation to the hospital for caring for the patients at no cost so far promised to assist with the bills.
“We will liaise with the hospital to see how much money we can contribute to the victim’s medical bills. Obviously the drugs are not manufactured here. The experts they are bringing from the outside don’t work for the Nigerian Army, they will have to pay them”.
Speaking on measures being taken to forestall further attack, he said ‘i will speak with the president. He has already giving directives. I’m sure by the time we finish the repair of the rail tracks, we would have gotten approval for the security equipment and we would possibly have installed. But even if dont install yet, we have spoken with the management of the Nigerian Airforce to escort the trains. They were previously escorting the trains but recently, the weather has been very bad and visibility dropped to below 500 meters so they couldn’t fly”.
“They have resumed flying and will escorts the train we resume”.
Amaechi also spoke on the plan to involve local security.
“The president has approved that we should employ people who will waking on the rail tracks for the next six to seven months until we install the equipment. We intend to employ villagers on the corridor. So that they can report any suspicious movements to us and the security”.
Governor El-Rufai while speaking called for stern measures to be taken against the bandits.
“We have enough intelligence for us to take action. The Airforce undertakes enough ISR, the SSS has informants all over the place. We know what they are planning. We get the reports. The problem is the action agencies to take action”.
“Don’t wait until they attack before they respond. The Army should go after their enclave to wipe them. Let the Airforce bomb them”.
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