No fewer than one hundred and thirty patients at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar are unaccounted for, following widespread looting during last weekend’s in parts of the Cross River state capital.
The hospital’s Medical Director, Bassey Edet told journalists during an on-the-spot assessment of damages suffered by the hospital, said sixty-one other patients have returned on their own volition, while other patients are being sought SK that they return to treatment.
Edet said medical officers and nurses who were injured when the hoodlums attacked the hospital are also responding to treatment.
The State Commissioner for Health, Betta Edu assured that despite the situation, efforts will be put in place to ensure that the medical needs of citizens is given utmost priority by the State Government.
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Scores of hoodlums are reported to have invaded the hospital and destroyed equipment, and thereafter opened the ward for the psychiatric patients receiving treatment, and set them free.
(Edited by Sola Jaiyesimi)
