The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has visited victims of the recent petrol tanker fire explosion in Onitsha, Anambra State.
The South-East zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Major James Eze, who led the team, visited the survivors on their various hospital beds in the commercial city, with a pledge to assisting them ameliorate their plight.
Speaking to journalists, Eze said the agency embarked on the visit to find out how they were faring.
He disclosed that they had earlier in the week visited the hospitals, but could not see the victims, following doctors’ order.
Hospitals visited by the NEMA team who were accompanied by the Executive Director, Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, ASEMA, Mr. Paul Odenigbo, and staff, include, Toronto, General, Menax, Borromeo and Bex hospitals.
Eze, who expressed deep shock over the calamity, promised that NEMA was going to see how it could assist the victims in their plight.
He said: “We were here two days earlier, but the doctors said we can’t see them because they were sleeping, and that is why we had to come again.
“NEMA shares in their pains, but we thank God that they are recuperating; we are satisfied with what we saw so far in the hospitals”.
However, contrary to media reports that the victims were 69 in number, the Anambra State government, through the ASEMA Director, put the figure at 49.
The Chief Medical Director Toronto hospital, Dr. Emeka Eze, told the government officials that the victims were stable and are recuperating fast.
It would be recalled that no fewer than 60 persons, including a pregnant woman and some kids, were burnt badly by the fire disaster, which occurred at the Asaba motor park, along the Upper Iweka road.
The fire disaster equally destroyed at least 15 commercial buses.
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