Gloria Egbuji, a human rights activist and founder, CRIVIFON, said this on Wednesday at a media briefing in Lagos.in 2017 and the presidential assent in January 2018, many states are yet to domesticate the law.Advertisement
“Since 1998, the organisation has been leading the cause of gunshots and accidents victims by urging medical staff in private and public hospitals to admit the victims for treatment before asking them to produce a police report,” she said. She added that even though there is already a law on the compulsory treatment of gunshot and accident victims without police report before treatment, some Nigerian hospitals have continued to demand police report, thereby putting the lives of victims at risk.
“Among the recent victims of gunshot who died as a result of the refusal of hospitals to treat them without police report, even after the enactment of the Gunshot Victims Act, was a gospel music producer cum final year Higher National Diploma student at Ibadan Polytechnic popularly known as Ebenezer Ayeni.