The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police Force says any hospital, either private or public, that fails to treat a patient with gunshot injury on the premise of no police report shall be “arrested and diligently prosecuted”.
This was disclosed in a press statement signed by the Lagos Command Police Public Relations Officer SP Chike Oti in reaction to a publication by Punch Newspaper that two private hospitals, including Reddington Hospital, refused to treat Adebayo Akinwunmi, an engineer who was shot by armed robbers in his house, for the lack of a Police report.
The Police described the action of Reddington Hospital as “as cruel; perhaps, an indication that the hospital management may be ignorant of the “Compulsory Treatment and Care of Victims Of Gunshot Act, 2017.”
The statement read: “In the light of this development, the Command wishes to inform all medical…
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