All Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers in Lagos State should henceforth prosecute any medical practitioner, who reject gunshot victims for reasons of no police report.

Hospital authorities were also warned against the rejection of gunshot victims or the attitude of asking for police report before treatment.

The warning which is coming from the Lagos State Police Command, had to be repeated, following a report that Reddinton hospital in Ikeja rejected a gunshot victim.

According to the command, an engineer, Adebayo Akinwunmi, who was shot and wounded by armed robbers in his house at Ofada-Mokoloki, Ogun , was refused admission on the grounds that there was no police report .

Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, said the command considered the action of the hospital as cruel; perhaps, an indication that the hospital management may be ignorant of the “Compulsory Treatment and Care of Victims of Gunshot Act, twenty-seventeen.