Relatives beat doctor, nurse after losing family member

Angry father and son on Tuesday descended heavily on a medical doctor and a nurse at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta after losing their family member.

Our correspondent gathered that pandemonium broke out around 2:00 am on Tuesday at the emergency ward of the hospital shortly after a 53-year-old female patient died.

Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, Ogun State Chapter, Dr Kunle Ashimi while briefing newsmen, condemned the attack on two of the medical workers by the husband and son of the patient who died of heart failure.

Ashimi said  Dr Pelumi Somorin was the doctor assaulted while the identity of the nurse had not been ascertained.