{"id":1056,"date":"2021-08-18T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2021-08-18T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:59:11","slug":"kogi-nma-calls-for-proactive-action-against-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/kogi-nma-calls-for-proactive-action-against-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi NMA Calls for Proactive Action Against Insecurity\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">By Yekini Jimoh &#8211; Lokoja<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Kogi State chapter, on Tuesday, decried the deteriorating insecurity situation in the country and called for more proactive action from government at all levels and their relevant agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The NMA state\u2019s Chairman, Dr Omakoji Oyiguh, disclosed this at a press briefing in Lokoja, at the end of the association\u2019s 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and scientific conference in Lokoja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Oyiguh decried the rate of the incessant insecurity situation in the country, especially the target of medical doctors by kidnappers from their homes and workplace for ransom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He, therefore, called for a stronger synergy between the community, security agencies and professional associations to raise the bar in providing actionable intelligence for the security of the people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He noted that the association had also adopted kidnap protocols for its members so as to be vigilant and be security conscious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Oyiguh added that Nigeria citizens have been living in fear across the country, stressing that medical practitioners were not spared by hoodlums from kidnappers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">According to him, medical doctors have been kidnapped in their line of duties, while patients they are attending to were left to their fate in the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Oyiguh called on government at all levels to rise up to the occasion in protecting the lives and properties of its citizens, adding that they should come out with a profitable system to avoid brain drain in the medical system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cWe can no longer keep quiet over the gruesome killings around the country. The government must stand up to their responsibility,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The NMA sympathised with the National Association of Residents Doctors (NARD) over the ongoing strike and urged the Federal Government to listen to them in order to build a better health care delivery in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He noted that the National Executive Council of NMA would soon be convening a national meeting, where a decision would be riched to possibly joined the ongoing strike by NARD to press home their demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Oyiguh noted that the association during its AGM and scientific conference, interfaced with relevant stakeholders for more collaborations in the area of security for residents of the state especially the medical doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Oyiguh added that the association paid courtesy visits to the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Federal Fire, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), to seek collaborations and partnerships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He noted that the visits were to partner with the agencies in the areas of providing adequate health care services to victims of fire and road accidents, training and retraining services for medical and paramedical departments of FRSC, to improve on their services..<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Yekini Jimoh &#8211; Lokoja The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Kogi State chapter, on Tuesday, decried the deteriorating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,2],"tags":[34,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-1056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kogi","9":"tag-nma"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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