The Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has reversed the sit-at-home directive it issued to its members yesterday.
The NMA in a statement, said it initially gave the directive following alleged harassment of its members by men of the Nigeria Police Force. The association said it ordered its members to sit at home because it was “unbearable combining the continued threat to life from the officers and men of the police force with the existing daily threat of COVID-19.”
The association said its resolution to call off the order to its members to sit at home was based on the assurances of cooperation with all health workers by the police, intervention by the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the appeal from the people of Lagos.
“The sit at home order issued on the 19th of May is hereby reversed and our members are hereby directed to resume work from 6pm today 21st of May 2020.
“The doctors in Lagos State, under the auspices of NMA, has, and takes seriously, a responsibility to partake actively in the fight against Covid-19 and the delivery of quality healthcare to the citizenry for the entire period of the ongoing lockdown/restriction of movement and beyond,” the NMA said.
It urged the Lagos State government to ensure the status of healthcare worker was “clarified at all times” for the entire period of movement restriction.
“That the association will continue to monitor the situation and will not hesitate to take any action to protect the safety of our hardworking members,” the Lagos chapter of the NMA stated.
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