The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has urged the Abia State Government and security agencies to step up efforts to secure Dr. Uwadinachi Iweha’s release.
The association’s President, Dr Uche Ojinmah, issued a statement in Abuja on Monday condemning the victim’s kidnapping.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Iweha, 74, a former Chief Medical Director of Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH) Aba, was kidnapped on June 6 in front of his house in Umuajameze Umuopara in Umuahia South Local Government Area (LGA).
Ojinmah urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to develop a deliberate policy to prevent the kidnapping of doctors, other healthcare workers, and their families as a tool for reducing Nigeria’s medical brain drain.
”We call on the kidnappers to search their conscience and see if it is right to keep in forced captivity an elder that has spent most of his life in the service of humanity.
”The Nigerian Medical Association is looking forward to receiving the news of the safe release of Dr Iweha.
”We shall not take kindly to anymore waste of scarce medical skills,” Ojinmah said.