Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, has directed hospitals in the state to treat persons with gunshot wounds and accident victims before demanding police report.
The governor said the duty to save lives is primary, and must come before formal police report. El-Rufai’s spokesman, Samuel Aruwan, who disclosed this in a statement shortly after the 15th Kaduna State Security Council meeting held in Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, said there is no reason for an innocent citizen who survived armed robbery and needs treatment for gunshot wounds to be denied medical attention until he produces a police report.
The statement reads in part: “The governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, has directed all hospitals in the state to, with immediate effect, start treating persons with gunshot wounds and accident victims without demanding police report as a basis for attention.
“Lives must be saved first, before the formalities of demanding police reports from victims. After saving lives, hospitals and other agencies can start making inquiries regarding how the gunshot wounds and other injuries were sustained. We consider it gross abdication of responsibility if any hospital leaves injured patients unattended because of the absence of police reports. “The hospitals can comply with the reporting requirements of the police after providing the care the patient needs. “This is the unanimous resolution of the Kaduna State Security Council.
As governor, I have communicated this decision to the Kaduna State Ministry of Health and Human Services and other concerned agencies operating in the state. A moment of trauma is not the time to put paper before life.
All our healthcare agencies have been advised that it will amount to criminal neglect to deny or delay critical care to such patients.” According to the statement, the meeting of the Kaduna State Security Council which endorsed the resolution was attended by representatives of the Army, Police, Air Force, Navy, Directorate of State Services, Civil Defense, Federal Road Safety Commission, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the Nigerian Customs Service.
By: Aza Msue
National Mirror News
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