In emergency response, localising disaster management has been a time-proven process that entails use of local responders embedded in communities, thereby ensuring faster response and in essence saving more lives and alleviating the suffering of victims. Keying into this, the South-west Zone of the National Emergency Management Agency has kicked off series of trainings for such local actors, writes Chiemelie Ezeobi
One of the challenges emergency responders always face is getting to the scene of any incident in record time. This is not anyway limited to only state emergency responders, as the federal body also battles this anomaly as the issue of timeliness and accessibility have been an impediment, especially for emergency workers.