The President of FCT Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Roland Aigbovo, has narrated how relatives of a patient stripped a female doctor naked in an Abuja hospital. Aigbovo decried heightened assault and threat to the life of medical doctors by relations of patients in the Federal Capital Territory. In a statement on Friday in Abuja, he said a female doctor at the Maitama District Hospital, FCT, was recently assaulted and stripped naked by relatives of a patient, following the death of their mother. READ ALSO: Amotekun can use guns like hunters, says ex-police commissioner“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 naked by relatives of a patient, who died three days ago.”He further explained that the attack was based on purported mismanagement of the patient, who was said to have died from a chronic medical condition.

Source: Punch January 10, 2020 12:11 UTC