The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has given an assurance that normalcy has returned to the sites of two bomb explosions in Jos, Plateau State’s capital, north-central Nigeria.
The agency’s statement is coming after a bomb attack on a restaurant and another on a mosque left at least 44 people dead and about 47 others injured in Jos.
In an interview with Channels Television on Monday, NEMA’s North-West Coordinator, Abdulsalam Mohammed, confirmed that regularity had returned to the scene of the incident.
Mr Mohammed, said: “The two scenes of the incident have been cordoned by the security agencies, while NEMA and other major stakeholders are in the respective hospitals monitoring the situation of the victims”.
The NEMA official also pointed out the challenges encountered by the agency, expressing optimism that the situation had improved.
“In a normal situation, our challenges are always crowd control but this time around, the situation has improved because we have some volunteers we trained on casualty handling and emergency response.
“They have been handy to us and they really assisted us in ensuring that the casualties were quickly evacuated to the respective hospitals,” he said.
Mohammed further stressed that hospitals, where the victims
of the explosion were admitted, were appealing to the general public for donation of blood, observing that they were short of personnel.
He commended the Nigeria Medical Association for calling off its
industrial action and the deployment of medical practitioners to hospitals where the victims were been treated.
“Thank God I reliably gathered that the Nigeria Medical Association has called off its strike and they are releasing some of their doctors particularly from the Jos University Teaching Hospital, to other hospitals, where the casualties are
taken to, for proper medical attention,” the NEMA Official said.
Source - Channels TV
