HEALTH : Flying Doctors, Ondo, others Win Consumers ng Awards

Flying Doctors Nigeria (FDN) and Ondo State are
among bodies listed by Consumersng, an online
advocacy group for a more consumer-centric business
environment in Nigeria, as the top 20 brands adopting
high tech innovations in delivering services to people.
FDN, a medical emergency service that specializes in
air ambulances, and other remote site medical
solutions services, won the health start-ups category,
while Ondo’s ,multi-purpose smartcard, ’Kaadi
Igbeayo’ soared in the E-Governance category.
Others who emerged as winners are Irokotv, lamudi,
Konga, Interswitch, Ondo, GTBank, Etisalat, Natures
Gentle Touch, Hellofood,Jumia, Jobberman,Carmudi,
Passng, NOBEX Tech, Dun Loren Merrifield, Printivo,,
Jovago and BudgiT.
According to Consumersng spokesperson, Funsho
Williams, the recognition given to the winning brands
was because they had proved themselves to be
proactively responsive to the yearnings of people in an
information age.
“I commend them all, for finding courage to be
innovative in a society like ours which places less
priority on consumer rights (people), they are so
important to us that we have decided to make them
the face of our souvenirs this year in order to position
them as role model for other organisations to emulate.
She said.