Despite that fact that the NMA has been on strike, the State Chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Dr. Mohammed Sani Ibrahim has directed doctors to attend to victims of the twin bomb blast that occurred in Kaduna yesterday.
Dr. Ibrahim who spoke with Daily Trust said: “Just as we had said earlier before the commencement of the strike, if there is an emergency, our doctors will not hesitate to work. So as soon as we heard of the incident, we sent bulk SMS to all our doctors and they assembled immediately to attend to the victims that were conveyed to both the 44 Reference and Yusuf Dantsoho Memorial hospitals.
” Some of the doctors at 44 Reference hospital are not on strike because they are military personnel “but of course they were overwhelmed, so some of our doctors joined them,” he said.
The state NMA chair also said that 13 doctors were deployed to 44 Reference hospital to join other doctors while seven doctors were deployed to Yusuf Dantsoho hospital.
“Some had just minor bruises, so such patients were treated and discharged immediately but the patients with serious injuries were about 42 or there about,” Ibrahim said.
“The total number of death is still not very clear but the figure available to us now is about 35 and we have about five patients at Yusuf Dantsoho Memorial hospital who have been resuscitated. One of the patients was unconscious earlier on but is also recovering.” The Chief Medical Director of Yusuf Dantsoho Memorial Hospital in Tudun-Wada, Dr. Armiyau Bello said that about seven survivors of the bomb blasts were rushed to his hospital while the dead were deposited at the mortuary.
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