EBOLA: Four Indian Doctors Claim They Are Being Forced To Treat Ebola Patients In Nigeria

 Four Indian doctors in Nigeria have said they are being forced to treat Ebola patients against their will. They also charged their employers with taking away their passports to ensure that the doctors couldn’t leave the country.

 The doctors – Yogesh Chandra, Dinesh Kumar, Hemant Jingar, and Kapil Chouhan – said they were threatened to not leave Primus Hospital in the Nigerian capital Abuja. With the virus spreading across the country, the doctors feared for their lives.
According to the Hindustan Times,Chouhan said..

    “We haven’t been provided with any security kits. Our passports have been impounded. When we spoke to the Indian high commission, we were asked to come to the mission. But we were stopped by guards from leaving the hospital,”

Nigerian Doctors Suspend Strike Over Ebola

 Public sector doctors in Nigeria  called off their 5-week old strike yesterday August 7th to help with the fight against the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria.
In a statement issued by the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, the doctors listed “the incursion of Ebola into Nigeria” as a main reason for suspending the strike.
Two days ago, the Lagos state government through the Commissioner for Health, Dr Idris Jide, had appealed to striking doctors to call off their strike so as to help contain the spread of the virus.





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