The management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has said that it will stop at nothing to ensure that the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world is quickly brought to an end.
The Ondo State NYSC Coordinator, Mrs. Grace Akpabio, made the assertion while donating hand sanitisers produced by SAED Vanguards to some hospital facilities and government agencies in the state.
The state coordinator disclosed that since the outbreak of the deadly virus in the country, the scheme had put on its thinking cap which resulted in the production of Personal Protective Equipments such as liquid hand washing soap, hand sanitisers and face mask.
Akpabio said that the NYSC had invested a lot into the production of the materials to complement government’s efforts at combating the pandemic.
While making donation at Federal Medical Centre, Owo, the NYSC boss said that the facility had done much for the scheme in the state and that the donation was a way of returning the good gestures of the institution.
“What goes round comes round, Federal Medical Centre, Owo, has been a strong pillar of support to NYSC in the state and coming out to support the facility in this challenging period is a collective task which we have undertaken to do,” she said.
Receiving the materials, the Medical Director, Dr. Liasu Adeagbo Ahmed, said that NYSC was indeed a true and dependable partner.
He promised to intensify services to the general public and most especially to the members of the NYSC.
“Your support today will encourage us to intensify our efforts to do more to the general public most especially to the corps members during this trying period,” he said.
At the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Akure, the NYSC boss said that prompt services the facility had been rendering to the NYSC family in the state prompted the selection of the Teaching Hospital for this widow’s mite.
Dr. Adesina Akintan who received the consignment of the hand sanitizers on behalf of the hospital expressed appreciation.
Dr. Akintan disclosed that the donation would be used judiciously for the purpose it was meant for.
At the Sector Command Headquarters of the Federal Road Safety Corps, the State Coordinator said that the NYSC management was aware that the personnel of the Command were at great risk because of the large number of people they dealt and interacted with everyday.
“It is incontrovertible fact that the personnel of the Sector Command is at greater risk and will be exposed to occupational hazards during this health pandemic, hence the need for the scheme to donate these hand sanitisers to mitigate the effects of the Coronavirus,” she said.
The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Corps Commander Rotimi Adeleye, thanked the management of the NYSC for the gesture.
He called on the members of the service corps to continue to live by the ideals and objectives on which the NYSC scheme was established.
Akpabio announced that the scheme in the state would soon start mass production of hand sanitisers for commercial purpose with a proviso that it would be subsidised for corps members.
