Jos attacks: Doctors worried over filled hospital wards, mortuaries, others

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Plateau State chapter has lamented the recent spate of killings in the state, adding that they could have ”physical and psychological” impacts on residents of the state.

The doctors who decried the killings in a statement in Jos yesterday noted that hospital wards and mortuaries in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State have been populated with injured persons and corpses of victims of the armed attacks in the council.

Recall that Checkout Magazine had reported on August 15 that 23 persons traveling to Osun State met their untimely death when their vehicle ran into a group of irate youths in. Gada-Biyu-Rukuba Road in the council.

The incident led to the imposition of a 24-hour curfew on the council by Governor Simon Lalong. Jos Central and Jos South were slammed with dusk to dawn curfew.

The statement by the state NMA Chairman, Dr. Innocent Emmanuel and Secretary, Dr. Bapiga’an William, reads in part, “We are deeply concerned that the victims of these unwarranted attacks continue to populate hospitals’ emergency wards and mortuaries in the state.

“Innocent, armless, accommodating and committed citizens of Plateau State have continued to live under the perennial unsavory reality of perpetual terrorism manifesting as kidnappings for ransom, rape, maiming, and killings as well as threats of total annihilation.

”The NMA, therefore, calls upon the government and the security agencies to protect the lives and property which is their primary responsibility.”

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