Doctors Observe Work-Free Days To Mourn Colleague

In order to mourn their
dead colleague, Dr Sam Okpara, who died in kidnappers’ den, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), in Rivers State has declared Monday and Tuesday work-free days.
The late Okpara was kidnapped from his private hospital in the Abuloma area of Port Harcourt, tortured to death by his abductors and dumped in a cassava farm behind Comprehensive College in Borokiri Area of Port Harcourt.
According to the state NMA Chairman, Dr. Ibifuro Green, doctors in public and private hospitals would stay out of duty, noting  however that they would handle emergency cases during the work-free days.
He wondered why doctors had become kidnappers’ targets, noting that the gangsters had an erroneous impression that doctors were rich people.
The state chapter of the NMA had earlier in the week raised the alarm over the incessant abduction of medical doctors, including the late Okpara, in the state and threatened to embark on strike if the captives were not released.

A victim of a bomb blast at Bauchi Road Motor Park in Jos, Plateau, State receiving treatment at the Plateau State Specialist Hospital last Friday