The National Orientation Agency (NOA) says health facilities are legally bound to treat people with gunshot wounds without hinderance.
Malam Ahmad Tijjani, the NOA Director in Jigawa gave the explanation during a sensitisation campaign on the provisions of the Gun Shot Act 2017, at the Police Headquarters in Dutse on Thursday.
The director said the gesture was to ensure that all stakeholders, including medical practitioners, comply with the Act.
Tijjani said the Act has given legal coverage for the treatment of persons who sustained gunshot injuries without any hindrance whatsoever, to forestall unnecessary loss of lives.
The director said they had paid similar visits to other security agencies, public and private health facilities and other critical stakeholders in the state to remind them about the existence of the act and the need to comply with it.
Responding, the Commissioner of Police in state, Mr Ahmadu Abdullahi, appreciated the agency’s roles in ensuring a virile society and pledged that the command would totally support the enforcement of the law.
According to him, the Inspector-General of Police had already directed all commands to comply with its provisions.
He appealed to NOA to use its vast structures and platforms to help the police and other security agencies in correcting some social vices in the society.