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Protesting nurses holding placards at the Specialist Hospital, Lokoja A group of nurses working with Kogi Specialist Hospital, Lokoja erupted in a protest on Thursday to call for an end to incessant physical assault on their colleagues by both patients and caregivers at the health facilities. The protest commenced from the hospital premises with the aggrieved nurses were seen carrying placards matching through the wards before proceeding to the township. Critical among the messages on their placards was the call for a halt to physical attacks by patients and their caregivers in the course of receiving medical care from the health officials. In a chat with EbiraView, one of the nurses who preferred to be anonymous lamented the repeated attacks from patients or their loved ones on the nurses while on duty, saying such incidences always ema acted from little misunderstanding of their service delivery processes. She noted with regret a recent situation at the specialist hospital where a nu...