The public protest is the outcome of a meeting called by the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association to review the security situation in Rivers State and the rampant kidnapping of doctors.
Our correspondent UCHENDU EJIOWHOR reports that the medical doctors matched from Garrison Junction on Aba Road Port down to Government House to register the complaints.
The medical doctors were all dressed in black attire in a mood of mourning of one of their colleagues who have died in the hands of kidnappers.
The latest medical doctors to be killed by kidnappers in Rivers State include Doctor FLORENCE ONUA who was shot last Friday and died on Saturday at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.
Addressing newsmen, the State Chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association, Doctor DATONYE ALASIA, expressed concern that attacks on health facilities by criminals and kidnapping of doctors in the state have become too many.
Doctor ALASIA also observed a growing hospital patients who suffered violent attacks by criminals in Rivers State.
Other doctors involved in the protest complained about the hazards of working in an unsaved environment, with threats from cultists, robbers and kidnappers.
They warned that if the trend continues, they may resort to abandon their duties post at various health facilities across the state.
Our correspondent reports that the aggrieved medical doctors were received at the Government House Gate by the Chief of Staff, EMEKA WOKE, who assured that their complaint would be relayed to Governor NYESOM WIKE.
However; EMEKA WOKE noted that insecurity was a global challenge and therefore not peculiar to Rivers State, adding that the Rivers State government was committed to the protection of life and property of the people.
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