NMA Expresses Concern O ver Kidnap Of Doctors

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has expressed concern over kidnapping of medical doctors in Ondo and other states and non payment of  its members‘ salaries in Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
Dr Francis Faduyile, the President of NMA expressed the feeling in an interview with newsmen yesterday in Abuja.
He said that the spate of kidnapping was now very alarming, adding that the NMA frowned at kidnapping of some doctors in Ondo and others sates.
According to him, the rate of kidnapping has heightened tension in Ondo state and other states in Nigeria.
Faduyile called on the Federal and State governments to effectively check security lapses, especially the ravaging incident of kidnapping in the country.
“The health workers have been targeted in many of these security issues with many of them kidnapped in the course of discharging their duties, some of them got killed in the process.
“We call on government at all levels and the security agencies to urgently do the needful in addressing the menace,” he said.
The NMA President expressed displeasure at the failure of the management of LUTH to pay the salaries of doctors for four months.