Ekiti six: NMA wants ambulances on highways

The Nigerian Medical Association has asked the federal and state governments to provide functional ambulances on the major highways across the country for the conveyance of victims of vehicular accidents to nearby hospitals.



The NMA made the demand following the recent death of its six members and a driver in Ekiti State.

The association, which raised a N20m educational endowment fund for the support of the families of its members in Ekiti State who died in an auto crash along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway, also resolved that a former interim administrator of the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Dr. A. O. J. Kolajo, should “be suspended indefinitely and referred to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria for further disciplinary action.”

The deceased doctors were Dr. Alex Akinyele, Secretary, NMA,  Ekiti Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti and Dr. Tunde Aladesanmi, General Surgeon, FTH, Ido Ekiti.

Others are Dr. O.J. Taiwo, anatomic pathologist, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti; Dr. J. B. Ogunseye of the National Association of General and Government Medical and Dental Practitioners and National Secretary, Hospital Management Board, Ekiti State; Dr. Olajide O., President, Association of Resident Doctors, EKSUTH; Dr. Atolani Adeniyi, Secretary, NAGGMDP, Ekiti State; and Mr. Ajibola, the NMA Ekiti driver.

The NMA’s positions were contained in a communiqué signed by its newly elected President and Professor of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Mike Ogirima and Secretary-General, Dr. Yusuf Tanko Sununu.