THE acting vice chancellor of Eko University of Medicine and Health Sciences (EKOUNIMED), Ijanikin, Lagos, Professor Adedayo Ejiwunmi, has advised the newly-matriculated students of the university to be focused, hardworking and law-abiding in order to graduate in record time and with good grades and character.
He gave the advice recently while addressing them at the fourth matriculation ceremony of the institution, held on the campus and also virtually.
The Acting VC said the students, who were 50 across different disciplines, should know that though the university had quality academic and non-academic workforce to train them, they must play their part by studying hard, be disciplined and law abiding.
He said they must not only read widely to learn, grow, understand and apply what they had learnt, but must also cultivate a rapport with other students and faculty members and be assured that they were being prepared to take full advantage of opportunities that might come their way to succeed in every aspect of life.
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According to him, EKOUNIMED is the first privately-owned medical university in Nigeria, established to contribute to the production of quality medical professionals for the home and global market.
He explained that the university had obtained full accreditation from both the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) to run all its academic and clinical programmes across fields of medicine and in addition partnering the University of Lagos, Nigeria Institute of Medical Research, Yaba and the Lagos State Health Service Commission for teaching, research and mentorship activities as applicable for students.
Also speaking, the founder of the university, Dr Ibraheem Hammed, lamented the dearth of medical schools in the country, saying the situation is very disturbing.
He said that he had a strong conviction that the establishment of Eko UNIMED would greatly help in increasing access to medical and health university education for qualified youths in the country.
He said the statistics had shown that the 34 medical schools in Nigeria at present were grossly inadequate to produce enough medical doctors and other health professionals including pharmacists, dentists, physiotherapists, nurses, laboratory scientists, among others needed by the over 200 million population.
According to him, since Nigeria has a ratio of one doctor to 6,000 patients at present, it means the country will need over 303, 000 doctors more to be able to meet up with the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation of one doctor to 600 patients.
The implication of this, he explained, is that Nigeria needs at least 10,605 new doctors on yearly basis to join the workforce.
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