When the then-Governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, established the Riyom General Hospital and Trauma Centre 2004, the location of the facility was widely praised as strategic. The hospital is in Sambak, a community in the Riyom Local Government Area on the accident-prone Riyom-Abuja Highway.

According to data obtained from the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), 132 crashes occurred in the Riyom-Hawan Kibo-Forest axis of the highway between April and December 2024, in which 54 people died and a further 392 were injured.

The Trauma Centre is zero; we are working in the general aspect of the hospital. The Trauma Centre has not been furnished. There is nothing inside the structure; the governor knows about this, and discussions are ongoing to put the place into use.” Mr Garkuwa said in an interview with this reporter.

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