The Nigerian Medical Association NMA has attributed the incessant mass exodus of medical doctors out of the country to the insecurity that has ravaged the nation.
Kogi State Chairman of NMA, Abubakar Hassan, stated this in Lokoja while speaking to journalists on the ongoing nationwide strike embarked upon by the association.
He noted that medical personnel have become the prime targets for criminal elements in the country despite their service to humanity.
While lamenting that the reoccurrence of the kidnapping of medical doctors has crippled the health services in Kogi state and the nation at large, he stressed that there are many unreported cases of doctors who are being held in captivity by their abductors across the country.
He pointed out that in a particular North Central State, at least two doctors are currently in captivity, one for upward of one year now while the second one happened only recently, saying the story is the same across the entire country.