The Nigerian Medical Association NMA, Lagos chapter has issued a stay-at-home order to its members over incessant police harrasment disguised as enforcing COVID-19 lockdown measures.
The order was contained in a statement issued by the professional association and signed by its chairman, Saliu Oseni on Wednesday.
The recent industrial action by doctors in the midst of a pandemic comes on the heels of the alleged arrest of 50 medial personnel on Tuesday by the police who said they acted on the orders of the inspector general of police, Mohammed Adamu.
The arrest was carried out despite medial personnel and essential workers being immune from the dusk to dawn curfew imposed by the State and Federal Governments on Lagos State to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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According to the NMA, security personnel have incessantly harrased and intimated medical personnel on their way to work.
It explained that many of its members made distress calls to the association on Tuesday following harrasment of medial personnel. The association said ambulances conveying patients were also impounded by the police.
“The Lagos State Branch of the NMA has resolved that it is presently unsafe for members to continue to provide healthcare services under the present confused arrangement,” it said.
“All Medical Doctors in Lagos State are hereby advised to proceed on a sit-at-home, in their best interest, starting from 6pm today, Wednesday, 20th May, 2020 indefinitely, until otherwise advised. The statement concluded.