The Commonwealth Medical
Association (CMA) on Thursday said it remained saddened over the murder of a
professor of paediatrics and the Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Prof. Jerome Elusiyan.
Elusiyan was killed in the line
of duty while returning from a Clinical examination of undergraduate medical
students of Ambrose Ali University in Edo State of Nigeria.
Dr. Osahon Enabulele, CMA
President, in an open letter sent to President Muhammadu Buhari, the Association appealed for improved security and ambulance
services on Nigerian highways to avoid needless killings and ensure timely
emergency services.
The CMA called on the Nigerian
government to conduct an urgent appraisal of the security situation with a view
to strengthening the security system through the deployment of more effective
security measures, along with the concrete address of other social determinants.
“The CMA is further dismayed by
the unholy killing and kidnapping of Medical doctors and other health
professionals, including the recent killing of Aid workers, especially in the
North Eastern part of Nigeria, in the course of their sacred duties”, it read.
“The CMA finds worrisome and
totally unacceptable the fact that some kidnapped medical doctors and health
workers are yet to be released after over a year in the kidnappers’ den. This
calls for great concern, especially at this time when Nigeria is grappling with
a burgeoning phenomenon of external brain drain from her health sector.
“The CMA therefore calls on
governments at all levels to do more to protect her citizens, including medical
doctors and other health workers who have decided to stay back in Nigeria to
render health care services and mentor younger generations.
“The CMA passionately calls for
strengthening of security measures in the health workplace to safeguard the few
numbers of medical doctors and other health professionals currently working in
Nigeria (their fatherland) so as not to lose them to more secure and receptive
climates.
“As Prof. Jerome Elusiyan begins
his final journey home today, CMA condoles with his immediate family, the
Nigerian government, the Nigerian Medical Association and the Nigerian health
community over the sad demise and pray for the eternal repose of the great
soul”.
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