The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Wednesday called on Nigerians to raise financial support to help victims of train attacks raising treatment in hospitals.
The minister in his statement said, “You saw the patients with burns and then the one that has a bullet located in her heart.
“They are bringing an expert tomorrow for that one to see if there will be surgery or not to take out the bullet.
”They said they have only seven (patients) left and the rest have been discharged. The ministry and I think the federal government, are grateful to the Nigerian Army for providing such services. But one thing I have said to the Nigerian people is to liaise with the hospital management and see how much money they can contribute for the treatment of the patients.
“Obviously those drugs are not manufactured here, the experts they are bringing from outside don’t work with the army, so they have to pay them. We will try as much as possible to see what contributions we can make to the management of the hospital to assist in taking care of the patients.”