Coronavirus: Federal road safety corps produce customized face masks for personnel
The Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), said it has commenced mass productions and distribution of customized face mask for its personnel across Nigeria, a development said to be in response to the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on coronavirus.
Penpushing reports that, the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, in a statement on Monday said the Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, has directed the tailoring unit of the Corps to commence immediate and speedy production and distribution of the customised face masks for officers and marshals of the corps nationwide.
The statement, added that the production is due to the critical role the corps plays in the ongoing enforcement of the national restriction order, stressing, “FRSC personnel being at the front line in the enforcement of the Presidential restriction order on Covid-19, they have every tendency of coming in contact with different categories of people, including carriers of the infectious disease, and as such deserve to adopt all precautionary measures, especially the constant use of face masks while discharging their statutory functions.”
Penpushing further reports that, Kazeem noted that the produced facemasks to be distributed to personnel have been certified by medical experts to be fit for use by all staff, adding that the corps boss had supervised the distribution of alcohol based sanitizers and the conventional medical face masks to staff at the national headquarters and other formations including the national driver’s licence capture centres.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, it is recalled had launched ventilators and disinfectant spraying devices, and also directed Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) to begin production of face masks.
“The face masks to be produced must be in line with the standard set by World Health Organization (WHO),” he said, while the taskforce on its part recommended that all ministries, departments and agencies of the federal government procure and distribute locally made face masks for use by their staff as part of established efforts to quell the spread of the virus.
