Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
The Commissioners for Heath in Kogi and Cross River States are to be prosecuted before a court of competent jurisdiction over their alleged unethical conduct in the fight against the spread of the dreaded coronavirus.<\/p>\n
As a preparatory for their formal trial in court, the two commissioners will first face a probe panel put in place by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) for allegedly obstructing the activities of the Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in their respective states.<\/p>\n
National President of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Professor Innocent Ujah who dropped the hint, explained that the two health Commissioners have been reported by the NCDC to the Council for allegedly \u201cplaying politics with human lives\u201d in the two states.<\/p>\n
He said some doctors have to be sanctioned and be made to face trial in competent courts, adding that by their training, doctors are expected to be objective on issues affecting the well-being of humanity.<\/p>\n
Ujah, a renowned Professor of Medicine and former Director-General of the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research said that the posture of the two health commissioners to the national efforts to control and curtail the Covid-19 pandemic was not only worrisome but unethical.<\/p>\n
The NMA president in a lecture with the theme: \u201cSocial Organisations, Human Rights and Covid-19 Pandemic\u201d, he delivered at the 22nd Anniversary and Founders Day Celebration of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, held that, contrary to the erroneous impression created by the two commissioners that coronavirus does not exist in their states, abundant medical evidence has established the existence of the disease.<\/p>\n
The NMA chief who took a swipe at the two commissioners said that the denial of the presence of Covid-19 in the two states was politically motivated and unethical on the part of the two commissioners.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth of the matter in this country today is that Covid-19 is real. It has come and it\u2019s throwing this nation into a big mess.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a known fact today that the greatest challenge to humanity is the coronavirus. We do not need to wait till we begin to see dead bodies on our streets before we believe that the disease is with us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat those Commissioners are doing is to endanger the lives of the people instead of advising their Governors properly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t live in island. They are epidemic characterization of the disease. Kogi is a transit state when you come from the South East to the North, you pass through Kogi, when you come from the North, you pass through Kogi, from the South, you pass through Kogi; and they are saying there is no COVID-19 in Kogi state.<\/p>\n
\u201cCross River has international borders and there is no reason why COVID-19 should not be in Cross Rivers State. I think they have recorded 5 already, and it could be more. I believe the Commissioners are coming out to play politics with human lives.<\/p>\n
Africa Press-Nigeria: The Commissioners for Heath in Kogi and Cross River States are to be prosecuted before a court of competent jurisdiction over their alleged unethical conduct in the fight against the spread of the dreaded coronavirus. As a preparatory for their formal trial in court, the two commissioners will first face a probe panel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":27266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1451,396,1425],"class_list":["post-27265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-kogi","tag-ncdc"],"yoast_head":"\n