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ALLEGATIONS by a section of the Tundun Wada Community in Kaduna that Christian doctors and nurses were injecting Moslem patients with HIV/AIDS-infected blood has been declared false.
ALLEGATIONS by a section of the Tundun Wada Community in Kaduna that Christian doctors and nurses were injecting Moslem patients with HIV/AIDS-infected blood has been declared false. A panel set up to probe the allegation gave the verdict yesterday in its report to the Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi.
And while receiving the report, the governor lamented that ethnic and religious sentiments are twin-evils militating against Nigeria's search for proper and enduring unity.
According to Makarfi, it is unfortunate that some people in the state remain parochial in the pursuit of a matter that would lead to no good.
The governor also regretted that the nation's well educated people have not applied their knowledge to ventures that would bail the country out of the present religious and ethnic quagmire.
His words: "God loves Nigeria, but for how long are we going to continue seeing things only in ethnic and religious colouration.
"People who are learned in this country should apply it in a way that will benefit the people. It is unfortunate that there are still people who have only one way of reading a particular matter. And they can go to any length on it."
Makarfi said the issue at stake did not only border on the medical profession, but also on security, saying the recommendations of the panel would be examined by the government within the next 48 hours.
The governor further noted the highlights of the findings of the panel, stating that government would leave no stone unturned to ensure security of lives and property in the state.
Chairman of the panel, Sumaila Ahmed, said within the past two weeks of the panel's assignment, the panel has undertaken comprehensive investigation on the veracity of the claims by the section of the Tudun-Wada Community.
From all available evidence, he said, there was no deliberate attempt by any of the medical personnel at the hospital to bring any harm to anybody.
Ahmed, a medical doctor also told the governor that there was no attempt to flout, on the part of the medical staff, the ethics of the profession, especially regarding the treatment of patients.
The committee, he added, also discovered that patients were not treated in the hospital based on their religious or ethnic backgrounds, insisting that the medical staff did not in any way violate their oath on the treatment of patients.