Doctor and Medical Workers in the Employ of the suspended Imo Health Parastatals, agencies and departments, who were allegedly brutalised by officials of the Imo State-owned Imo Security Network, have appealed to the Federal Government to come to their aide.
Protesters at the Imo Specialist Hospital Umuguma, Owerri West Yesterday took to their Heels when security Operatives who came to enforce the change of Management of the Facility to concessionaires, opened fire shooting into the air and chasing the workers away.
One of the doctors, a Medical Officer at the Ihitte-Uboma Local General Hospital, Dr. Victor Ofili was allegedly beaten to stupor by security operatives and is said to be responding to treatment in an undisclosed hospital in the state.
It would be recalled that the Imo State Secretary to the Governor Jude Ejiogu, issued a directives few days ago suspending workers salary in 19 parastatals, effective from january 4 for alleged unproductively.
Chairamn of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Dr. Hyacinth Emele, who made a distress call to the Guardian on Monday Night said There were attempts by officials of the Imo, Security Network in conjunction with some officers of the state police command, to detain Ofili on the orders of the supervising medical official of Ochiedike Dialysis Health Institution in Owerri, Dr, Ifeanyi Nwachukwu. The order, according to Emele was for alleged refusal to allow for the concessionaires to take over the facility as directed by the state government.
Meanwhile, as criticism continues to trail the disengagement of the workers of 19 agencies in the state public service, government has insisted that the decision would be sustained.
By: Charles Ogugbuaja
Guardian News
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