{"id":76536,"date":"2025-10-13T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76536"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:27:06","slug":"doctors-nurses-urge-hospitals-to-treat-gunshot-victims-without-police-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/13\/doctors-nurses-urge-hospitals-to-treat-gunshot-victims-without-police-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors, Nurses Urge Hospitals to Treat Gunshot Victims Without Police Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), and the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), have reminded hospitals that refusing to treat gunshot victims without a police report is illegal and unethical.<\/p>\n<p>They cited the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Wounds Act (2017), which mandates all hospitals: public and private to treat victims immediately. The law prescribes up to five years\u2019 imprisonment or a \u20a6500,000 fine for violations.<\/p>\n<p>NARD President, Dr. Mohammad Suleiman, said doctors must \u201ctreat first\u201d and leave documentation to police, urging sanctions for offenders.<\/p>\n<p>NMCN Registrar, Mr. Ndagi Alhassan, added that saving lives must come before paperwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), and the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), have reminded hospitals that refusing to treat gunshot victims without a police report is illegal and unethical. They cited the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Wounds Act (2017), which mandates all hospitals: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76538,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76536\/revisions\/76538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}