Leading the African mobility platform and high-tech/electric vehicle financier, Metro Africa Xpress Inc. (MAX) has donated a high-performance three-wheeler to Korede village, a rural community in Oyo State.
The three-wheeler is intended to be used within the community’s healthcare system as an ambulance.
This was done as part of the mobility tech company’s commitment to impacting the lives of Africans and raising living standards. It does this primarily by making high-performance and electric vehicles available to African commercial drivers on a subscription basis and at no initial cost.
Speaking on the initiative, President and Co-founder, of MAX, Chinedu Azodoh said, “Several rural areas in Africa experience particular difficulties with regard to healthcare. MAX is constantly contemplating ideas to enhance the lives of our driver community and also those of the wider populace. This serves as the prime motivator behind the initiative.”
He added that: “One of the things we feel more entities should think about is how to make our communities healthier places to live. We believe that innovations in technology in multiple areas can serve as a catalyst to transform health care in rural Africa. We are aware that a simple piece of machinery like this three-wheeler, dedicated solely to emergency responses in their healthcare system can make a significant difference in Korede village.”
A representative of Korede village, said that “It is a really wonderful thing that a company like MAX was thinking about us, and we hope other programmes like this continue to come to our village.
Executive Director, MAX, Guy-Bertrand Njoya, explained that patients in need of emergency treatment are disproportionately difficult to care for in rural locations without basic healthcare facilities.
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