Cross River: Medical doctors commence indefinite strike over kidnap of colleague’s wife
The wife, a staff of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, was kidnapped on Tuesday, at about 7am when she was about to enter her car to the office. She is an assistant director in the Hospital.
The duo frowned that from 2017 till date, no fewer than 15 medical doctors and their dependents have been kidnapped within the state. The Association lamented that the perpetrators have struck again, thereby inflicting untold hardship and emotional distress to the family and the Association. “However, we cannot continue to save lives while we are under constant threat by armed bandits and kidnappers. NMA in Cross River has proceeded on a total and indefinite withdrawal of medical services in both the private, public and institutional hospitals in the state. This include University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Federal Neuro Psychiatry Hospital, General Hospital, Medical Centres, Mission Hospitals and Private Clinics with immediate effects”, they said.
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