The abducted Physician, Dr Orockarrah Orock, attached to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State has escaped from custody of his abductors who slept off after smoking Indian hemps
Penpushing reports that it is recalled that the medical practitioner attached to the Anaesthesia Department of the hospital, was on Saturday night kidnapped within the hospital premises while on call duty.
The Chairman of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA, Enugu State Chapter, Dr Celestine Ugwoke confirmed the miraculous escape of Orock, explaining that the abductors having earlier felt satisfied with ransom to be pay by his wife, went on smoking celebration ahead of the payment.
Penpushing further reports that Ugwoke stated that in the cause of the celebration , the kidnappers embarked on heavy smoke of Indian hemp, and thereafter fell into deep sleep, while the abductee gradually crawled away from the spot he was kept in the kidnappers’ den
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) boss added that the kidnapped Doctor later trekked and ran a distance before sighting human activities and then came out near the Four Corner Junction of Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.
‘He called his wife and the wife called the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Chief Security Officer that picked him up that midnight of Saturday. We are profoundly grateful to God for his miraculous escape,” he said.
Penpushing also reports that Ugwoke, lamented that Doctors had become endangered professionals in the state, as kidnappers always target them especially those working in tertiary health institutions in the state.
The Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) expressed concern that the professionals are really in trouble as they are now kidnappers target adding that they (Doctors) are living in fear as the kidnappers now chase them as if they are chasing rats.
Penpushing reports that he declared that any more abduction of any Doctor in hospitals again would force the body to totally down tools adding that the warning would be extended to other tertiary hospitals in the state.
The chairman disclosed that the association would be meeting with the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) to mandate him to release security protocol for the hospital, to ensure the safety of all Doctors, management staff, staff and patients.
‘We also want the hospital management to beef up security within the hospital, ensure adequate perimeter fencing of the entire hospital and installation of Close Circuit Television Camera (CCTV) and its monitoring base within the hospital’, he said.
‘As an association, we have previously met the state’s Commissioner for Health and the Commissioner of Police on the spate of insecurity our members face even in the discharge of their life-saving professional duties’, he added.
‘All efforts through official letters and other means to pay a courtesy call on Gov. Peter Mbah and intimate him on the vital issue of Doctors’ security in the state had proved abortive. Maybe, the government wants Doctors to leave their duty posts and carry placards to the Enugu Government House before listening to us. This will be very bad if allowed to drag to this point,” he said.
Penpushing further reports that as at the time of filing this report, the Enugu State Police Command, Public Relations Officer Daniel Ndukwe, was yet to make any official statement on the worrisome development
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