The Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. -Gen. Faruk Yahaya has reiterated Nigerian Army’s (NA) commitment to giving prompt medical attention to wounded officers and soldiers.
The Army Chief gave the assurance when he visited wounded personnel at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna.
This was contained in a statement released by the Director Army Public Relations, Brig. -Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu on the COAS’s visit barely three weeks after he also visited wounded officers and soldiers at 7 Division Hospital and University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).
The Army Spokesperson stated “He expressed appreciation for their sacrifice to the Nation, adding that the NA is doing everything possible despite the challenges of the Covid – 19 pandemic to provide them with adequate treatment in order to hasten their recovery”.
Brig. -Gen. Nwachukwu added “All arrangements have been concluded for personnel that require medical treatment abroad to be flown out, especially for those that need plastic surgery and prosthetics”.
In order to save the Nation from spending scarse foreign exchange, the statement says that Lt. -Gen. Yahaya disclosed that arrangements are ongoing in partnership with some foreign experts from Germany to build a State-of-the-Art facility in the hospital for the production of prosthetics for personnel who lost their lower limbs in service to the Nation.
Quoting Gen. Yahaya, the release says, “The partnership will not only hasten the provision of such artificial body parts, but also save the Army the huge cost of moving the personnel abroad for treatment”.