FG May Deploy Doctors To Anambra Over Massacre

By Ogbolu George with agency report

The Federal Ministry of Health has disclosed that it has placed medical experts on standby to beef up services at the Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital, Anambra, for worshippers injured in the Ozubulu church attack.

Professor Isaac Adewole, the Minister of Health, made this known in a statement released by the ministry’s Director of Media and Public Relations, Boade Akinola, on Monday in Abuja.

Adewole, who described the incident as shocking, assured the Chief Medical Director of the hospital of immediate Federal Government support as soon as such was required.

The minister also praised the doctors at the hospital for being proactive in their response to the emergency.

Adewole commiserated with the government and people of Anambra on the unfortunate incident.

The early Sunday morning attack on St. Philip’s Catholic Church, Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of the state, claimed 11 lives with 18 others injured.