Bauchi Spinal Cord Patients Plead For Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation Centre

Spinal cord wounded patients successful Bauchi State person appealed to the authorities to found a physiotherapy and broad rehabilitation centre to easiness the load of unaffordable regular therapy sessions.

Chairman of the Spinal Cord Injury Association of Nigeria (SCIAN), Bauchi Chapter, Mr Ilya Ismail,  made the plea during a sensitisation workout organised by Yankari Express Corporation astatine its centrifugal parkland successful Bauchi.

Ismail commended the absorption of the state-owned transport institution for commemorating the time with spinal cord patients and stressed that the installation would amended their prime of life.

“Many of america cannot spend the outgo of regular physiotherapy exercises. If the authorities establishes a broad rehabilitation centre, it volition greatly trim the hardship we face,” helium said.

Speaking astatine the event, the wide manager of Yankari Express Corporation, Engr. Babaji Yunusa assured continued enactment for spinal cord patients and pledged that the corporation’s drivers would support strict professionalism and compliance with postulation regulations.

Yunusa said the centrifugal parkland was deliberately chosen for the sensitisation programme, fixed the nexus betwixt car crashes and spinal cord injuries.

“When you speech astir spinal cord issues, accidents—mostly roadworthy crashes—are the large cause. Drivers indispensable truthful debar overspeeding, overloading and reckless driving, which are the basal causes of specified incidents,” helium stated.

He disclosed that the corp works intimately with Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) who analyse each vehicles earlier departure to guarantee information and forestall roadworthy mishaps.

Recounting a tragic case, Yunusa narrated however a University of Maiduguri pupil sustained a spinal cord wounded aft refusing to hold for a Yankari Express conveyance and boarding different commercialized conveyance that aboriginal crashed.

“He told america that if helium had known, helium would person waited adjacent for 1 twelvemonth for our conveyance alternatively than instrumentality that fatal travel that changed his beingness forever,” the GM said.

The sensitisation workout served arsenic a reminder of the devastating consequences of roadworthy accidents, arsenic some passengers and drivers were urged to follow safety-first attitudes connected the road.