The Member Representing Ikwo and Ezza South Federal Constituency Rt. Hon Chinedu Ogah has advocated for more establishment of College of Medicines in rural communities with adequate manpower to tackle health challenges in the country.
The federal lawmaker stated this at Blessed Martin’s International Institute of Science and Technology, Ohatekwe Amagu in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State during the approval of College of Medicine Science in the institute.
According to the lawmaker who is also the Proprietor of the Institute, identified key management of health as Nurses and Midwives, said that it is the Nurses and Midwives that take care of patients in the hospital.
Ogah also noted that the institute has brought development to the community including employment opportunities and providing for the people.
His words; “Many people travel abroad to get health services and when you look at those health facilities they run to in those countries, you will discover that it is Nigerians that are manning those hospitals and performing miracles there. So, why can’t we establish these hospitals here in Nigeria to provide health services for the people,” he stated.
In his part, the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Dr Farouk Umar Abubakar, also called for establishment of College of Medicines in rural communities for adequate manpower to tackle health challenges in the country.
According to him, when the colleges are established in rural areas professionals trained in those colleges, will show interest and man primary, secondary, and tertiary health centres across the country.
He noted that the council was in the school to inspect the level preparedness for the take-off of the College of Medicine Science.
“When you train a young lady who is brought up in the urban area, you don’t expect her to go back to the rural areas but when you brought the training to the communities, they will show interest and man our primary health centers, secondary level and tertiary level so that when we take enough at the level of our communities, then we inject them to the urban areas as well as the national level and the globe and this is the idea of encouraging and establishing these colleges at the community levels,“ he stated.
“We are here to see things physically and see the level of preparedness for the taking off of Blessed Martins College of Medical Science that is well established and from the assessment, we have gone round.
“We have seen adequate provisions of resources. We start from the physical facilities; there are an adequate number of classrooms, a number of demonstration rooms, number of laboratories as being provided in numerous departments.
“The environment is well placed for the taking off of the training of nurses and midwives. In terms of manpower, from the available checklist to us, there are reasonable number of qualified educated nurses and midwives that will provide the necessary teaching-learning experience in addition to other supporting staff in the areas of sciences both Medical sciences, Physiology, Anatomy, Biochemistry, and other related sciences are all available and this is what is expected.
“Looking at the encouragement, there are adequate number of landscaping, good road networking. We observed various different power outreach; solar power is available, NEPA and generator. So, there are three different components of power in other to sustain learning activities,” he disclosed.
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