Bandits have launched an early morning attack on General Hospital Dansadau in Zamfara state, abducted staff, and injured others.
A statement by the leadership of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Zamfara branch said the assailants attacked the facility in the early hours of Friday looking for doctors and nurses to kidnap.
Zamfara state NMA chairman Dr Mannir Bature said the the association had “received a report of attack on General Hospital Dansadau in the early hours of Friday 30th July 2021 by armed gunmen looking for medical doctors and nurses.”
He said during the attack, the bandits “abducted a ward attendant and a patient relation. Two other female staff of the hospital were also wounded.”
He said “worried by the unfortunate incidence, NMA Zamfara will hold an emergency state officers council meeting on Saturday 31st July 2021 at NMA Secretariat to deliberate on the issue.”
