The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has confirmed the escape of an abducted resident doctor, Dr Orockarrah Orock, attached to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State, who was kidnapped on Saturday night within the hospital’s premises while on call duty.
The Chairman of NMA, Enugu State chapter, Dr Celestine Ugwoke, said that Orock made his escape after the kidnappers felt satisfied with the offer to pay the ransom demanded by his wife and went to have a “nice time with their weeds and spirits and fell into deep sleep.”
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He explained that the abducted doctor crawled away from the spot he was kept in the kidnappers’ den and trekked and ran a distance before sighting human activities and then came out near the Four Corner Junction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.
He further said, “He called his wife and the wife called the UNTH Chief Security Officer (CSO) who then picked him up that midnight of Saturday.”
