The Federal Government yesterday ordered medical institutions to treat accident and gunshot victims brought to them or face criminal charges.| Here's an idea: you could build, you know, hospitals, and they could have places within for the emergency treatment of accident and gunshot victims. |
This was disclosed at a news conference by Health Minister Professor Babatunde Osotimehin and his counterpart, Dr Aliyu Idi Hong. They advised that lives of victims should be held sacred before any other modalities.
Professor Babatunde Osotimehin appealed to his colleagues to attend to victims of either gunshots or accidents as they await either police report or clearance, delay which might cause the loss of victim, thereby destroying evidence which would have been cardinal to the case. He said, "We as medical professionals should treat first, we should not put money before the lives of our patients, don't ask for payment or police report, just give treatment."
| Then he mumbled something about an oath and left the room ... |