Maitama District Hospital

The President of FCT Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Roland Aigbovo, has narrated how relatives of a patient stripped a female doctor nak*d in Abuja hospital, NAN reports.

"It has been estimated that recently, no fewer than six health workers, especially doctors and nurses, have been assaulted by patient's relatives in FCT hospitals.

"The recent victim being a female doctor who was stripped nak*d by relatives of a patient, who died three days ago.

"The perpetrators of this act had earlier threatened to kill the doctor for refusing to transfuse the patient with blood for which the doctor explained that it was not necessary.

"The doctor had also explained to the relatives that blood transfusion could complicate the patient's condition."

He disclosed that the perpetrators of the act were currently in detention at the Maitama Police Station, Abuja,and would be charged to court.

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