The new law was also set to compel all public or private hospitals in Nigeria to immediately render adequate treatment with or without a police clearance, of any person with a gunshot wound. This same law further explains that a hospital doesn’t need a deposit before accepting to treat a victim of such circumstance. The law also gives the condition of filing a report with the police within two hours of commencement of treatment. It is said that she was rushed into a hospital and wasn’t attended to because there wasn’t any police report. Life is the most important thing, and the more time wasted to thoroughly defeat this issue, the more lives are lost.

Source: The Guardian December 24, 2019 01:52 UTC