Treat People With Gunshot Wounds, Accident Victims Before Police Report- El Rufai Directs Hospitals

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has directed
all hospitals in the state to treat persons with gun wounds
and accident victims before demanding police reports. The
governor said that the duty to save lives is primary, and

must come ahead of formal reports to the police.

The spokesman to the Governor, Samuel Aruwan,disclosed
this in a statement shortly after the 15th Kaduna State
Security Council meeting held in Sir Kashim Ibrahim House,
Kaduna.



“The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir Ahmad
El-Rufai, has directed all hospitals in the state to,with
immediate effect, start treating persons with gunshot
wounds and accident victims without demanding
Police Report as a basis for attention. Lives must be
saved first, before the formalities of demanding Police
Reports from victims.

After saving lives, hospitals and other agencies can
start making inquiries regarding how the gunshot
wounds and other injuries were sustained. We
consider it a gross abdication of responsibility if any
hospital leaves injured patients unattended because
of the absence of Police Reports. What is important
is saving lives. There is no reason for an innocent
citizen who has survived armed robbery and needs
treatment for a gunshot wound to be denied the
medical attention he requires. The hospitals can
comply with reporting requirements to the police after
providing the care the patient needs. This is the
unanimous resolution of the Kaduna State Security
Council. As Governor, I have communicated this
decision to the Kaduna State Ministry of Health and
Human Services and other concerned agencies
operating in the state. A moment of trauma is not the
time to put paper before lives. All our healthcare
agencies have been advised that it will amount to
criminal neglect to deny or delay critical care to such
patients.”Aruwan said.

The meeting of the Kaduna State Security Council which
endorsed the resolution was attended by representatives of
the Army, Police, Air Force, Navy, DSS, Civil Defense, FRSC,
NDLEA and the Customs service. Also present at the
meeting were HRH Alhaji Shehu Idris, the chairman of the
Kaduna State Council of Emirs and Chiefs, Emir of Birnin
Gwari, HRH Alhaji Zubairu Jibril II and Kpop Gwong, HRH
Paul ZakkaWyom.

Source: Lindaikeji.blogspot.com