Bauchi State Chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association, has begun an indefinite strike to protest alleged abduction of a medical officer, identified as Dr. Sambo, of the General Hospital Boto, Tafawa Balewa local government of Bauchi state, by the Special Task Force (STF) in Plateau state.
The association called for immediate release of the medical officer who it said was arrested while attending to a gunshot patient.
NMA claimed the armed military men came to arrest the patient, who was said to be under anesthesia, but the doctor pleaded with them to allow the patient to recover, but unfortunately the patient died.
The chairman, who revealed that the doctor was arrested at a police check point on his way to Bauchi on Friday, a day after the incidence purportedly on orders of the Chief of Army Staff, lamenting that “his (Sambo) GSM handsets has been confiscated while the doctor had taken to an unknown destination in Jos.
He noted that all efforts by his relatives and NMA to trace his whereabout
He noted that all efforts by his relatives and NMA to trace his whereabout
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