Our Programs
Ambulance Fleet Deployment
Objective: place fully-equipped, crewed ambulances within faster reach of Nigeria’s highest-crash
highway corridors.
● Standard: ambulances and onboard medical equipment will be specified and fitted to
standards benchmarked against the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the United States, Japan,
Australia, and France — covering vehicle build, stretcher/trauma equipment, and onboard
life-support systems.
● Activities: vendor selection and procurement; import and clearance; medical fit-out to Basic
and Advanced Life Support standard; branding and GPS/dispatch fitting; crew assignment.
● Target beneficiaries: road users on federal and state highways, with priority given to
corridors identified by FRSC as high-frequency crash zones.
● Service to the public: emergency transport and treatment will be provided completely free of
charge to accident victims and their families. “Free” refers to the service received by the
public — doctors, nurses, paramedics, and auxiliary staff are salaried professionals employed
under the programme, not unpaid volunteers, and their remuneration is costed in Section 9.
● Expected outcome: reduced time between a crash occurring and a trained crew reaching the
scene.
Emergency Ambulance Rescue Centres & Medical Centres Along the Highways (EMARC)
Objective: re-establish the toll-gate rescue-post model first outlined in SGAF’s founding objectives in
2003, adapted to current road infrastructure, with small medical centres positioned directly along
major highway corridors rather than only in distant urban hospitals.
● Activities: site selection in coordination with FRSC/toll-gate operators; construction or
retrofit of rescue posts; installation of trauma stabilisation equipment, generators, and
communications; staffing with a rotating paramedic crew.
● Target beneficiaries: commercial and private road users passing through covered corridors.
● Expected outcome: a visible, staffed emergency point along major routes rather than reliance
on ambulances travelling from distant urban bases.
Public First Aid & Driver Training
Objective: extend the reach of SGAF’s original 2004 Red Cross-partnered training model to a much
larger, recurring audience.
● Activities: curriculum refresh with the Nigerian Red Cross Society; scheduled workshops for
the general public, commercial drivers, and transport unions (RTEAN, NURTW); train-the
trainer sessions so local union members can extend training within their own ranks.
● Target beneficiaries: commercial drivers, transport union members, and the wider public in
workshop host communities.
● Expected outcome: more bystanders and drivers capable of giving safe, correct first aid in the
minutes before an ambulance arrives — the single biggest determinant of survival in many
road-trauma cases.
Blood Bank & Screening Support
Objective: reduce delay in accessing safe blood for accident and emergency victims.
● Activities: establishment of 2 pilot blood bank/screening centres; mobile screening drives in
partnership with hospitals and existing blood-donation networks.
● Target beneficiaries: accident victims and other patients requiring transfusion in the pilot
locations.
Community & Vulnerable-Group Support
Consistent with SGAF’s founding objectives, a smaller portion of programme activity will extend care
to internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and underserved rural communities reached during
outreach visits, in the form of mobile first-aid clinics rather than a separate large budget line.
Future Ambition: Air Ambulance (Helicopter) Support — Not Costed in This Campaign
For the most critical cases — particularly transfers from remote highway sections to major hospitals
— SGAF’s long-term ambition includes air ambulance (helicopter) capability. A single mission-ready
air ambulance typically costs several billion naira once purchase, certification, crew, and hangar
infrastructure are included, which would exceed the entire budget of this campaign on its own.
We are therefore flagging this honestly as a future phase to be pursued separately — most
realistically through a dedicated partnership with a government agency, the military, or a specialised
international donor — rather than folding it into the ₦12 billion ask set out in Section 9. We welcome
conversations with any partner in a position to support this specific goal.