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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
Four years after a routine maintenance and completion of civil aviation requirements, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has resumed air ambulance services
In 2014, NEMA introduced its first air ambulance for emergency health care, which eventually packed up in 2018.
Following changes in leadership, repair of the aircraft was completed last year 2021 and returned from France.
This year, the management finalised regulatory requirements in returning the aircraft to its ambulance operations.
The former chief pilot and Head of NEMA Special Wing Wing, Ibrahim Mamman, said the project was part of the transformation agenda of the Federal Government of the time.
“The air ambulance can be used to transport patients with critical and traumatic health situation from anywhere the individual is. As a matter of fact, the jet can go anywhere in the world; it has the mile range of 3,000 miles,” Mamman said.
