Men suspected to be armed robbers in the early hours of Tuesday raided a Government hospital in Bayelsa, Diete Koki Memorial Hospital, carting away cash and valuables belonging to doctors on duty and patients as well.
The robbers were said to have gained access to the hospital, located along Opolo Road in Yenagoa, the state capital, through the fence, which they broke through.
One of the Doctors on duty, Dr Okeleghel Awudumapu, told journalists that the robbery gang attacked while he was returning from his call room.
He said his belongings and that of patients from the labour ward and that of their family members were all carted away.
The Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Emmanuel Fetepigi, described the act as barbaric, adding that the management of the hospital will collaborate with the Ministry of Health to ensure that measures are put in place to forestall future occurrence.
More so, a security man at the hospital, Mr. James Benini, disclosed that it was the second time that the hospital would be attacked.
In his reaction, the police spokesman in Bayelsa State Police Command, SP Asinim Butswat, said, “The incident is yet to be reported, I’ve contacted DPO, Ekeki to get information from the hospital.”
