The Rivers State government said it has deployed four ambulances and one mobile hospital to handle emergency cases at the ongoing 43rd Federal Public Service Games in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
The eight-day event is holding at four different centres, Sharks Football Club Stadium, Port Harcourt Club, Niger Street Basketball Court and University of Port Harcourt Sports Complex.
The state commissioner for Health and Chairman, Medical Subcommittee for the event, Dr. Adaeze Oreh, disclosed this while addressing journalists in Port Harcourt yesterday.
Oreh, who was represented by a member of the subcommittee and Permanent Secretary of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Mrs. Fayeofori Francis Jacob, said tgd medical team that been fully trained and certified to handle all emergencies.
She said: “Our team is fully prepared; we have on ground four ambulances and a mobile hospital, fully equipped to handle any form of emergency. Our team have been trained and certified by relevant authorities to carry our any emergency medical services.”
The Health Commissioner stated that all athletes and officials participating in the games were made to pass through health talk to enable them know to co-relationship between the sports exercise and their body mechanism.
She said: “The health talk before the gamed was organised to that participants, including athletes and officials will be aware of the co-relationship between exercise and the body mechanism; sports and whatever we are coming to do here. What are the implications? How to stay safe while participating in various sporting exercises.
“Some go into exercise without being able to breathe, not consciously, but they don’t know that they are not breathing. But because of the anxiety; because of the anxiety, they are holding their breathe in order to finish and that could be injurious to their health.
“That was why we let them know that these are the ‘does’ and these are the ‘don’ts’. This is what can enhance your safety while you are at the exercise ground.”
