Police Harassment: Lagos Doctors Begin Indefinite Sit-At-Home Strike

The Lagos chapter of the Nigerian medical affiliation(NMA) has requested its members to start on an indefinite sit at dwelling strike as from 6pm on Wednesday following the curfew imposed on the state by the federal government.

The order was given following studies that males of the Lagos state police command barricaded roads within the state from 8pm and prevented folks from plying.

The transfer was stated to have made many sleep on the highways with well being care staff and different entrance liners preventing the novel coronavirus not spared.

The affiliation gave the directive in a joint assertion signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Dr. Saliu Oseni, and Dr. Ramon Moronkola, respectively in Lagos.

“The Lagos State Department of the NMA has resolved that it’s presently unsafe for its members to proceed to supply healthcare companies underneath the current confused association.

“We resolve that every one medical doctors underneath the auspices of the Nigerian Medical Affiliation in Lagos to proceed on a sit-at-home ranging from 6.00 p.m in the present day, Might 20, indefinitely.

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“Till such time when the state authorities and the Commissioner of Police, are clear on how they want to operationalize the lockdown/restriction of motion directive because it pertains to important service and repair suppliers, together with healthcare companies and medical doctors,” the NMA leaders stated.

“It needs to be marketed within the social and mainstream media, and a replica submitted to the Secretariat of the Lagos State Department of NMA.

“Whereas, the directives of President Muhamadu Buhari, via the Presidential Activity Drive on COVID-19, was clear on the exemption of important staff together with medical doctors and different well being staff from the continued lockdown/motion restrictions.

“The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, has been issuing conflicting directives on social and mainstream media to the impact that important staff, together with medical doctors and different well being staff, usually are not exempted.

“As a direct results of the conflicting directives of the federal government and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, the Lagos State department of Nigerian Medical Affiliation (NMA) was inundated yesterday night with a number of circumstances of harassments and intimidation of medical doctors and different health-workers by officers and males of the Police Command in Lagos State.

“The healthcare staff have been both resuming obligation, returning dwelling, or on-transit to heed an emergency name.

“There was a most annoying case of an ambulance conveying an injured affected person which was prevented from shifting to a vacation spot, whereas the attending well being staff have been harassed and quickly detained,” the NMA stated.

“It took the intervention of the State Governor, following a petition by the affiliation, for normalcy to be restored,” they stated.