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Following the battle connected 1 of their colleagues by relatives of a diligent astatine Owo hospital, doctors astatine the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State, connected Monday reportedly staged a protest.
The protesters, nether the auspices of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), FMC Owo branch, alleged that it had go a recurring occurrence successful the infirmary for doctors and different wellness workers to beryllium assaulted without capable sanctions.
Chanting solidarity songs wrong the infirmary premises, the protesters carried placards with inscriptions specified arsenic “Say nary to unit against healthcare workers” and “The hands that heal should not bleed.”
Speaking during the protest, the president of FMC Owo ARD, Dr Oluwadamilola Adeola, said the peaceful locomotion was to sensitise the infirmary assemblage connected the recurring assaults against wellness workers.
“It has been recurring. This twelvemonth alone, we person had astir 3 oregon 4 cases. Some are adjacent unreported. We are lasting to sensitise our radical that capable is capable to battle wellness workers.
“The manus they usage should not bleed. The purpose of this objection is to request apprehension and prosecution of perpetrators, and we privation this do...
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