Medical doctors under the aegis of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Nasarawa chapter, have alleged assault on a doctor at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital (DASH), Lafia.
NARD president in the state, Dr Yakubu Adeleke, made this known, yesterday, while addressing newsmen in Lafia, the state capital.
According to him, the medical doctor was attending to an emergency patient in the casualty ward when some soldiers in uniform ordered him to leave whatever he was doing and attend to their relative, whom they claimed needed urgent attention.
He said: “Our colleague insisted he was attending to an emergency case. The soldiers started beating the doctor. They beat him to pulp, and took their sick relation to another hospital.
“Sadly, harassment of medical practitioners in DASH has become so frequent. Inadequate number of doctors is a major factor that has put doctors in a tight working environment where one doctor attends to several patients.”
