The National Emergency Management Agency NEMA has resumed its air ambulance operations four years after the operation was grounded.
The air ambulance service was grounded in 2018 due to routine maintenance and regulatory requirement.
In a statement in Abuja by NEMA’s Head of press unit, Manzo Ezekiel, he said due to leadership changes, repair of the aircraft was completed in 2021 and returned from France.
He added that the present management finalised all regulatory requirements in returning the aircraft to its ambulance operations this year
Speaking on the usefulness of the ambulance, Captain Ibrahim Mamman, the then Chief Pilot and head of the NEMA Special Wing of the agency said “The air ambulance can be used to transport patients with critical and traumatic health situations from anywhere the individual is.”
