our Indian doctors working in Nigeria, a country hit by the deadly Ebola virus with 10 cases reported so far, are being threatened against leaving the country and are being forced to treat Ebola patients.

According to Hindustan Times, the passports of the four doctors have been taken away by authorities at the Primus Hospital in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, to ensure that they do not leave the country.

The doctors, Dinesh Kumar, Kapil Chouhan, Hemant Jingar and Yogesh Chandra, relayed their dire situation to Hindustan, the Hindi edition of HT, over phone and email and said that they feared for their lives as the deadly virus continues to rage across the country.

"We haven't been provided with any security kits. Our passports have been impounded. When we spoke to Indian high commission, we were asked to come to the mission. But we were stopped by guards from leaving the hospital", said Chouhan, adding that the Indian doctors were forced to stay back as local physicians had left following the Ebola outbreak in the nation. The National Medical Association union in Nigeria is reportedly on a strike.

Indian authorities, however, maintained that the doctors themselves had agreed to work for a few more days at the hospital before leaving the country, after the Indian mission in Nigeria intervened.

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Health workers have been facing grave risk in the face of the Ebola outbreak, with the Nigerian Medical Association itself stating at a press conference on Monday that healthworkers were at greater risk of contracting the disease as hospitals in the country lacked protective equipment.

More than 80 healthworkers have lost their lives to the virus in the four affected West African nations. The 10th case reported in Nigeria is also that of a nurse.

While no cases have been reported in Abuja where the doctors are based, about ten people have contracted the disease in the city of Lagos in Nigeria, some of whom are being treated in the Abuja hospital, according to the relatives of one of the doctors.

The issue also raises the question of moral responsibility of doctors, with the CEO of the Indian branch of the Primus Super Speciality Hospital stating that the doctors' demand to not treat Ebola patients goes against 'medical morality'.

"We are in touch with our Abuja branch. These doctors are afraid of contracting the dreaded disease but it is against medical morality. One doctor has left the service, which will be treated as impropriety," he told Hindustan.

However, the Indian Medical Association is backing the four doctors citing their free will to work, claiming that it should be the 'personal choice' of the doctor if they want to work in a particular country or not.

Put the source, you may hit front page.
Remember, its ma idea

you're joking right?

What did they come to Nigeria to do?
Treat healthy people?
India people should not let them into India.
These four doctors may already have eBola.
If they get into India, they will infect billions of people and finish man-kind.

drauj:
The doctors, Dinesh Kumar, Kapil Chouhan, Hemant Jingar and Yogesh Chandra, relayed their dire situation to Hindustan, the Hindi edition of HT, over phone and email and said that they feared for their lives as the deadly virus continues to rage across the country.

"We haven't been provided with any security kits. Our passports have been impounded. When we spoke to Indian high commission, we were asked to come to the mission. But we were stopped by guards from leaving the hospital"

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Wow if this report is true, kidnapping foreign doctors and forcing them into contact with suspected Ebola victims, WITHOUT adequate protective garments and equipment, is indeed a new low for Nigeria. Whoever had the passports of those Indian doctors seized, and ordered the doctors held captive inside hospitals under armed guard, should be asked to tender their resignation by the government, so that Nigeria's already battered name is not further sullied with this felonious conduct by a few rogue officials lurking in the Ministry of Health.

LMAO. This sounds unbelievable and highly sensational

They were forced to treat Ebola disease in Abuja, so they claimed. Yet Abuja has no single case of Ebola infection. What a grand deception!

desgiezd: They were forced to treat Ebola disease in Abuja, so they claimed. Yet Abuja has no single case of Ebola infection. What a grand deception!

Perhaps the Indian doctors preferred to depart Nigerian shores BEFORE Abuja recorded its first Ebola case, but then found they were locked in by someone powerful enough to post guards for the purpose of preventing the doctors' "escape" to the sanctity of their embassy.

Jakumo:

Wow if this report is true, kidnapping foreign doctors and forcing them into contact with suspected Ebola victims, WITHOUT adequate protective garments and equipment, is indeed a new low for Nigeria.

Did you read the entire report?

Firstly It's the Nigerian branch of an Indian hospital. Also the person defending the actions of the hospital is an Indian from the head office. (This shows It's an Indian run hospital)

Secondly, no Ebola cases (confirmed or suspected) have be reported in Abuja. So the Indian doctors (who are based in Abuja) have not been forced to treat any Ebola patient they are just making a pre-emptive move.

Thirdly, the article says a relative of the doctors claims some of the patients from Lagos are being treated in Abuja. We all know this to be untrue, all suspected and confirmed cases are quarantined in Lagos.

The bottom line is that this has nothing to do with Nigerians, it is a trade dispute between Indian doctors and their Indian employers.

Where do u get dis news oga poster?

XKZ:

Did you read the entire report?

Firstly It's the Nigerian branch of an Indian hospital. Also the person defending the actions of the hospital is an Indian from the head office. (This shows It's an Indian run hospital)

Secondly, no Ebola cases (confirmed or suspected) have be reported in Abuja. So the Indian doctors (who are based in Abuja) have not been forced to treat any Ebola patient they are just making a pre-emptive move.

Thirdly, the article says a relative of the doctors claims some of the patients from Lagos are being treated in Abuja. We all know this to be untrue, all suspected and confirmed cases are quarantined in Lagos.

The bottom line is that this has nothing to do with Nigerians, it is a trade dispute between Indian doctors and their Indian employers.

Walahi your head correct

Source: http://www.ibtimes.co.in/are-indian-doctors-nigeria-being-forced-treat-ebola-patients-606617

XKZ:

Did you read the entire report?

Firstly It's the Nigerian branch of an Indian hospital. Also the person defending the actions of the hospital is an Indian from the head office. (This shows It's an Indian run hospital)

Secondly, no Ebola cases (confirmed or suspected) have be reported in Abuja. So the Indian doctors (who are based in Abuja) have not been forced to treat any Ebola patient they are just making a pre-emptive move.

Thirdly, the article says a relative of the doctors claims some of the patients from Lagos are being treated in Abuja. We all know this to be untrue, all suspected and confirmed cases are quarantined in Lagos.

The bottom line is that this has nothing to do with Nigerians, it is a trade dispute between Indian doctors and their Indian employers.

I only zeroed in on the report of passports being seized, and of escape from the hospital being blocked by guards, while paying less attention than I evidently should have, to the rest of the article. Suffice to say, some doctors are being falsely imprisoned by someone IN ABUJA, and that cannot be justified by anyone.

they want to run away hahaha lmoa.
una go treat ebola patients tire!


but seriously this is kidnapping and forced labour

Lies,all lies no case of Ebola reported in Abuja!

Even smart Jakumo failed to grab the scope. Here is the deal.

Almost every educated Indian wants to emigrate to the west. But it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for western countries to grant visa to ordinary Indians no matter their qualifications.

What these Indians do is to pick up gap jobs in UAE, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, SA etc. They agree to all sorts of conditions like very low salaries, surrendering their passports to their employers who are mostly Indians like themselves etc. The idea is to gather expatriate experience which will aid their emigration applications.

What these jibiti doctors want to do is to arm twist their employers to release their passports back to them without staying the number of years agreed.

As Dem take cunny die, Na im their Agbalagba cunny employer wan take cunny bury them. No deal, you stay put in Naija and ful fil your own part of the deal. See as Indian man wan scope his fellow Indian.

So Ebola wey never reach Abuja became an instrument of blackmail ( na hindustan newspaper carry am sef). The employer sef became Nigeria's ministry of health, information and internal affairs all rolled into one, all na wash.
Kpali na im be the contention. Jibiti 101.

Marotzke: Even smart Jakumo failed to grab the scope. Here is the deal.

Almost every educated Indian wants to emigrate to the west. But it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for western countries to grant visa to ordinary Indians no matter their qualifications.


As Dem take cunny die, Na im their Agbalagba cunny employer wan take cunny bury them. No deal, you stay put in Naija and ful fil your own part of the deal. See as Indian man wan scope his fellow Indian. So Ebola wey never reach Abuja became an instrument of blackmail ( na hindustan newspaper carry am sef). The employer became ministry of health, information and internal affairs all rolled into one, all na wash. Kpali na im be the contention. Jibiti 101.

Wonderment. The question don kill the answer chop, and so, case no dey.

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AkinEgba:

You must be Yoruba.

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Ebola ravaging the country as in what?,& which part of Nigeria is ebola ravaging?

Its a lie, Primus hospital is wholly privately owned,
Its controlled by Indians and most of their doctors are itinerant workers (invited from India on demand). So if they have issues, its within themselves not Nigerian government.
Maybe they might have sign a bad agreement while desperately looking for jobs which gave their Indian masters the audacity to seize their traveling documents.

Primus, no doubt, has been a victim of Negative publicity since their arrival so this would only be a plus.

Only Kuje hospital was dedicated as Ebola quarantine/treatment centre of which no case of it has been reported in Abuja.

another wahala.