The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State branch has called off the strike action it embarked on yesterday as it asked its members to resume work.
Recall that the stay-at-home order which started on Wednesday was as a result of police brutality.
The NMA had on Wednesday criticized over-zealous police authorities harassing essential workers, such as doctors and journalists during curfew on Tuesday.
Recall that essential workers were on Tuesday arrested by the police in Lagos following the directive of Mohammed Adamu, Inspector-General of Police which was against President Muhammadu Buhari’s April 27 order stating that there be restriction of movement between 8pm and 6am nationwide to check the spread of COVID-19 excluding health workers, journalists and other essential workers from the curfew.
“As a direct result of the conflicting directives of the government and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, the Lagos State branch of Nigerian Medical Association was inundated yesterday evening with several cases of harassments and intimidation of doctors and other health workers by officers and men of the Police Command in Lagos State.
“The healthcare workers were either resuming duty, returning home, or on-transit to heed an emergency call.
“There was a most disturbing case of an ambulance conveying an injured patient which was prevented from moving to destination, while the attending health workers were harassed and temporarily detained,” they added.
