The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, is calling on government and security operatives to investigate and arrest those responsible for the burning down of private hospitals in the Oyibo Local Government Area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.
Briefing reporters at the state secretariat, the NMA Chairman in Rivers State, Professor Chizindu Alikor, said hospitals remain sacred even in war times and should not be attacked so as to continue to provide medical services for the injured.
Alikor said that little did they know that the once peaceful protests by Nigerian youths calling for an end to police brutality and good governance in the country, could later be a nightmare following the wanton looting, destruction, maiming, and burning of public and private property including hospitals by suspected hoodlums that hijacked the protests.
Addressing newsmen, the NMA Chairman frowned at the burning of several hospitals at Oyibo in the wake of the protests.
Professor Alikor further stated that despite what their members suffered in the hands of the hoodlums, they will continue to render their normal services.
He said that as they await the outcome of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the state government, the Association calls for support to cushion the losses suffered by their members.