The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has said that the Chief Medical Director or Medical Director of any hospital in the country where a doctor or health worker is attacked by patients’ relatives during the line of duty should be queried.
Decrying the spate of attacks on medical professionals in recent times, NARD said it was the responsibility of the CMDs and the medical directors of hospitals to provide security to their staff, the National President of NARD, Dr. Emeka Orji, stated this.

Orji who is also a Senior Registrar at the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Federal Medical Centre Umuahia, Abia State, lamented that hospitals in the country are not secure. 
Orji said issuing a query would serve as a deterrent to the CMDs and the medical directors who are neglecting the security of their staff.

According to him, security should not be compromised in hotspots in the hospital, particularly in the emergency department and general outpatient department where most of the attacks take place.
He said, “There has to be a systematic arrangement on how to secure the hospitals. Hospital management is representing the government, they are the people in charge of the hospitals. They should be able to control the situation”.