At the General Hospital in Ilorin, the Nigeria Association of Government Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGMDP) has begun a two-day strike over an alleged assault on a colleague.
Speaking on behalf of the association, Dr. Ola Ahmed, Chair of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), said that the regular threat to the physicians’ lives had prompted them to take time off.
Ahmed claimed that one of the physicians at the General Hospital was attacked and assaulted by a sergeant who was a part of the mobile police squad.
He added that on Sunday, February 26, around 5 p.m., a police sergeant who had brought his ailing wife for treatment assaulted the doctor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology unit.
She underwent the required tests, after which the doctor released her. Nonetheless, the Sergeant returned to the hospital and attacked the medical professional who had just examined his wife.
He claimed that The Sergeant alleged that the doctor did not obtain his consent before inspecting his wife and that it is a taboo in his culture.
Ahmed emphasized that the woman was an adult, not a minor and that a chaperone was present before the test was administered.
