By Kadiri Christopher
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| Comrade Amb Festus Alenkhe JP, FSGI, acknowledging his NRCS Long Term Service Award |
The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Edo State Council and immediate past State Trainer of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, NRCS, Edo Branch, Comrade Amb Festus Alenkhe JP, FSGI, has recently urged Nigerians to render humanitarian service when the need arise.
Speaking during 2024 World Red Cross Day Celebration held in Benin City, Comrade Amb Alenkhe noted that Nigerians now wished to record a situation than rescue victims, a development he decried in totality.
Calling on Nigerians to render humanitarian services, Alenkhe said, "the whole thing is that the work of humanity should remain in the people. As for me, I want to use this opportunity to appeal to Nigerians, do not use phones to resolve emergency. It is not the best. We know that when there are emergency for instance, somebody falls inside a well, accident victim bleeding seriously, you just see people using phones to record instead of saving lives. We are now appealing, let us stop this idea of using phones to resolve emergency situations, instead, drop the phone, rescue the person even if you can't do the first aid, that you are trying to put the person to the nearest vehicle to the hospital, you have rendered first aid.
"Secondly, there should be a law that says, any hospital that refuse emergency situations, should be sanctioned.
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| FESTUS ALENKHE flanked by journalists during a photo session at the 2024 World Red Cross Day Celebration |
"We have had cases of people dead simply because when you take people to some hospitals, they will tell you that they are not attending to emergency situations. We must commence treatment and thereafter, the person will be transferred to a bigger hospital", he said
In same vein, Comrade Amb Festus Alenkhe was honoured with a long service award among others during the event which was titled KEEPING HUMANITY ALIVE.
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