El-Rufai orders hospitals to treat people with gunshot wounds, accident victims before police report

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, on Thursday directed hospitals in the state to treat persons with gun wounds and accident victims before demanding police reports.
 
El-Rufai said 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.
 
According to the statement: "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 to because of the absence of police report.

"What is important is saving lives. There is no reason for an innocent citizen who has survived armed robbery and needs treatment for 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.

"All our healthcare agencies have been advised that it will amount to criminal neglect to deny or delay critical care to such patients."

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