Doctors at ABUTH strike over Professor’s Death

The Doctors at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, ABUTH have embarked on a 3 day strike to protest the murder of the Head of Surgery in the hospital, Professor Hycinth Mbibu.
Professor Mbibu was killed by unidentified gunmen on December 27th 2012 at the Kwangila area of Sabon Gari, Zaria.

The Treasurer of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Kaduna state chapter, Dr. Pwanidi Sofeme Luwa, said the 3-day strike is to press for the arrest of the murderers.
Dr. Luwa who is also the former chairman of the ABUTH’s Resident Doctors explained that the doctors would only attend to emergency cases.

“If in the next two weeks, the commissioner of police and other security agencies fail to apprehend the murderers of Professor Mbibu, doctors in Kaduna state, not only ABUTH, would embark on total strike,” Dr Luwa added.

The doctors say the strike has become necessary because three doctors including Professor Mbibu have been murdered within the past three months.