The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), has advised young medical graduates of the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo State, from leaving the country to practice abroad.
According to punchng.com, MDCN told doctors that the medical practice was a service to humanity, they need to see the need to contribute to the Nigerian medical system.
Dr. Tajudeen Sanusi, the Registrar of the Council, told the 34 medical graduates at the maiden induction ceremony of the institution, that we owe the society the responsibility of keeping them in good health, not minding if they are paid well or not. Today ceremony is a call to humanity’s service. The syndrome of ‘japa’ may look rosy in the beginning, but not profitable at the end.
Sanusi noted that some of them had the opportunity to be trained abroad but realized that no place like home.
When you go, make sure do postgraduate training there and think of coming back to build the system, you have been largely trained, free of charge, not minding that you are paying. cost of training each of you is considered, you will realized that you have enjoyed free education.
Some of you argue that your parents paid. It is because Nigeria’s economy is good and that is why your parents can make money in Nigeria.
Think of giving back to the county, seeing that no enough doctors, the ones we have should be utilized to benefit the society, he added.
In Western world, their children are no longer going to school, and they do not have money to train, that is why try are looking up to the third world to poach. Let us be patriotic and think of what we can give to this system.
He commended the university for the quality training offered to students, noting that UNIMED had the best phantom head laboratory for dental training in Nigeria.
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Adesegun Fatusi, stated that the induction has positioned the history of the school and health profession education in Nigeria.
He noted how they had to keep up with the training amidst the COVID-19 pandemic despite shutting down of medical schools across the country.
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