The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has proposed the establishment of a world-class trauma centre to alleviate the traumatic injuries and conditions of road accident victims and their families.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja ahead of the forthcoming International Road Crash Victims Africa Conference in Nigeria, scheduled for November, FRSC’s Corps Marshal Shehu Mohammed said the proposed trauma centre would be based on a public-private partnership basis.

The FRSC boss lamented that Nigeria ranks among the countries with the highest road traffic deaths in Africa, recording an average of 21.4 deaths per 100,000 people, as highlighted by the World Health Organisation’s Global Status Report on Road Safety 2023.

Mohammed further explained that the need to have such a centre had become inevitable as it would provide care for road traffic crash victims and their families, who often suffer from long-term traumatic conditions following accidents.