The challenges facing medical students, especially in Delta State, in the course of their housemanship programme will soon be reduced drastically, following the visit of an accreditation team from the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) to the state.
The team from Abuja, led by the registrar of the council, Dr T.A.B. Sanusi, visited the Asaba Specialist Hospital, which is being considered for the purpose.
Speaking when the team visited the state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Mordi Ononye, in his office, Sanusi said it had in recent times become difficult for new medical graduates to find places where they would perform their one-year housemanship.
“The intention of the council has been that let the Federal Government take responsibility, but the state also should be able to complement the efforts of the Federal Government by having in each of the senatorial district, a centre where medical students can do housemanship .
“If you look at it well, especially people from this area if peradventure, they go outside the state and do housemanship, they might be attracted by that place and may not be willing to come back.
“However, if you have different centres in your own state, it will encourage them to stay,” he said.
Responding, Dr Ononye, commended the steps being taken to alleviate the hardship faced by medical students by the accreditation of the Asaba Specialist Hospital to run an internship programme.
“I want to appreciate your response and visit as a team and we are looking forward to a wonderful visit and approval of Asaba Specialist Hospital as a centre for the training of house officers.
“We are concerned about the large number of people that apply for internship and are not able to get placement, even as some people have to spend a year waiting for placement and that is not just healthy,” he said.
He said this was an exercise that the state was taking seriously, hoping that the accreditation team would deal graciously with Asaba Specialist Hospital and by extension, the ministry and the state at large.
The commissioner also stated that the Ifeanyi Okowa administration has been proactive as regards the health sector because the government’s investment in the sector was quite robust.
“As you are aware, the governor of the state is a medical doctor and not only that, he is also much interested in the health sector vis-a-viz issues that pertain to trainings at all levels, including training as it pertains to medical students, house officers and resident doctors,” he added.
“For us, issues that relate to training and retraining are critical and the government has done a lot by investing much in the health sector to be sure that we are able to have a good crop of personnel across board in the health sector,” he added.
According to Dr Ononye, the Asaba Specialist Hospital would speak for itself as there is still room for more development, assuring the visitors that whatever observations they made would be given the desired attention.
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