Patients From Lagos Cry Out "They've Seized Our Passports"
According to Hindustan Times, 4 Indian doctors in Abuja are currently
being held against their wish by their employer. The concerned doctors
said they are being forced to treat Ebola patients against their will.
They also charged their employers with taking away their passports to
ensure that the doctors couldn't leave the country.
The doctors – Yogesh Chandra, Dinesh Kumar,
Hemant Jingar, and Kapil Chouhan – said they were threatened to not
leave Primus Hospital in the Nigerian capital Abuja. With the virus
spreading across the country, the doctors feared for their lives.
They spoke to Hindustan – a sister concern of HT – over phone, email
and WhatsApp. "We haven't been provided with any security kits. Our
passports have been impounded. When we spoke to the Indian high
commission, we were asked to come
to the mission. But we were stopped by guards from leaving the
hospital," said Chouhan.
He added that the Indian doctors were forced to work since local
physicians – who were on a strike – refused to come back to work when
the Ebola epidemic broke out. Government sources, however, told HT
that following the intervention of the Indian mission in Nigeria, the
doctors have agreed to work in the hospital for a few more days and
then leave the country Though Nigerians authorities claimed there were
no Ebola cases in Abuja, Dinesh Kumar's wife Smita alleged that
patients from Lagos – which hasregistered 10 Ebola cases and two
deaths – were admitted at the hospital
The CEO of Primus Super Speciality Hospital India Dr ND Khurana,
however, appeared to not agree with the demands of the four doctors.
"We are in touch with our Abuja branch. These doctors are afraid of
contracting the dreaded disease but it is against medical morality.
One doctor has left the service,
which will be treated as impropriety," he said. But Dr Narendra Saini,
secretary of the Indian Medical Association, countered Khurana,
arguing that a doctor's personal choice should dictate if theywant to
work in a particular country they should be force on their work.
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