Nelson A.Osuala [6 January 2018]
Credible information reaching our news desk has it that the Nigerian Medical Association, Cross River Chapter, has directed all its members to observe a total and indefinite withdrawal of her services to members of the public until their abducted colleague, Dr Usang Ekanem, is safely released from his abductors.
The strike action which is expected to commence from Monday, 8 of January 2018, was premised upon the recent abduction of its member by men of the underworld.
Laying credence to our source, the Chairman of the Association, Dr Effiong Mkpanam, while addressing journalists at the closure of an impromptu general meeting in Calabar, held yesterday Friday, lamented over what he describes as “an upsurge in the cases of targeted kidnapping of Medical Practitioners.”
According to the Chairman, the victim, Ekanem, who is with the College of Education Medical Centre in Akamkpa local government area, was abducted on December 26, 2017, with the kidnappers demanding a ransom of a Hundred (100)million Naira.
In his words :
“The NMA CRS hereby instructs all its members, both in Public and Private Medical Facilities (University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Institutional Hospitals, General Hospitals, Medical Centres, Mission Hospitals and Private Clinics and Hospitals) within Cross River State, that as from 8.00am of Monday 8th January, 2018, to observe a total and indefinite withdrawal of services to members of the public, until such a time that our Colleague is safely released by his captors and measures taken to forestall future occurrences,” he said.
Nelson A,Osuala
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