MDCN inspects Asaba Specialist Hospital for accreditation to run housemanship

The challenges facing medical students especially from Delta state in the course of their Housemanship programme will soon reduce 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 Tajudeen Sanusi, visited the Asaba specialist hospital which is being considered for the purpose.

Speaking when the team visited the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Mordi Ononye, in his office, Dr Sanusi said it had in recent times become very difficult for new medical graduates to find places where they would do their one-year houseman ship.

“The intention of Council has been that yes let the Federal Government take responsibility but the states also should be able to complement or supplement the efforts of the Federal Government by maybe having in each of the senatorial districts a centre where people can do Housemanship.

“If you look at it very well, especially, people from this area, if peradventure they got outside the State and did Housemanship, they may fall in love with 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 back,” he stated.

The Commissioner for Health, Dr Ononye in his response commended the steps being taken to alleviate the hardship facing medical students by 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 persons 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,” the Commissioner said.

He said this was an exercise that the state was taking very 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 equally stated that the Okowa administration had been actively 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 very much interested in the health sector vis-a-viz issues that pertain to training at all levels including training as it pertains to medical students, House officers, Resident Doctors among others” he added.

“For us issues that bother on training and retraining we take very seriously and the government has done a lot by investing so much in the health sector to be sure that we are able to truly have a good crop of personnel across board in the health sector”.

According to Dr Ononye, the Asaba Specialist Hospital will speak for itself as there is still room for more development, assuring the visitors that whatever observation they make and whatever gaps they may notice will be given speedy attention.

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