Nigeria: Nma, Resident Doctors Oppose Implementation of Coroner's Law
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Daily Champion (Lagos)
20 August 2008
Posted to the web 20 August 2008
Mansur Oladunjoye
Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), and the Association of Resident Doctors in Lagos state yesterday expressed reservation about the consequence of the full implementation of the coroner law in the state.
While Resident Doctors in the state University Teaching Hospital [LASUTH] said the law would breed unhealthy and illegal dumping of corpses, NMA noted that it was not consulted by the state government.
It would be recalled that the state government at a briefing by the Commissioner for health, Dr. Jide Idris and his Justice counterpart Supo Sasore [SAN] announced that the law has come to stay, adding that no blackmail would make it to jettison the idea. According to the duo the law had been in existence since 1954 and was amended in 1972.
But in a swift reaction a member of the state NMA, Dr. Adeloye Ademola called for the amendment of the law, insisting that the body was not invited to the public hearing where the coroner law was discussed.
Speaking with newsmen in Ikeja, yesterday Dr. Ademola noted that there were aspects of the law that were not practicable but could have been corrected if the NMA was involved at the initial stage.
According to him, the claim that autopsy would be conducted free of charge in government hospitals was also false.
Meanwhile, the President of the Residents Doctors Association at the LASUTH, Dr. Taiwo Lasisi has raised alarm on the rising number of unclaimed corpses at the hospital mortuary attributing it to delay associated with the autopsy report.
"The coroner law which is already creating crisis in the health sector was not put in place in public interest in the first instance," he noted.
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However, the state government has called for understanding, urging the aggrieved medical practitioners to seek the assistance of the state House of Assembly to amend the law instead of taking recourse to blackmail.
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