Doctors Protest Non-Release Of Kidnapped Pregnant Colleague

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Medical practitioners in Enugu State yesterday took to the streets over non-release of their eight-month old pregnant female colleague, Mrs. Chidinma Okwor, who was abducted by suspected kidnappers eight days ago.

The doctors, who wore their professional regalia, displayed placards with various inscriptions such as, “Release our Colleague now”; “Remember that an un-born child is involved”; and “We condemn the abduction of a foetus”, among others.

They insisted that the abduction of the eight-month old pregnant doctor was the height of criminality.

At the Central Police Station, Enugu, the medical doctors said if the government and security agents failed to secure the release of the woman, they would down tools in the next one week.

The executive members of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Enugu state chapter held a closed-door meeting with the police at the police station to fashion out the way forward.

Speaking during the protest, chairman, Association of Resident Doctors, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu, Dr. Ugwunna Nwachukwu who led the doctors, said it was heartless for anybody to abduct an eight-month pregnant woman.

The situation, he said, had become more worrisome considering that they were yet to establish contact with the abductors, stressing that it was terrible that anybody could take into captivity a full pregnant woman.

“This is a terrible thing. For now, nobody has been able to establish contact with her abductors and this is raising concern among us. We plead that whatever that is possible, should be done to enable her regain her freedom”, Nwachukwu said.

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