A renowned Professor of Radiology at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Mr. Rasheed Arogundade has emphasised the need for federal and various state governments to inject enough money into the running of medical colleges, saying such would enable them to train their students with modern equipment and facilities that would in the long ruin help curtailing the frequent medical tourism abroad by Nigerians.

 

He made the observation recently while delivering his inaugural lecture at the university, saying the focus of government has always been on the hospitals while neglecting the institutions that produce medical personnel.

 

Prof. Arogundade, who is the President of National Post graduate Medical College of Nigeria, spoke on “The detective in a radiologist.”

 

While expressing fulfillment for reaching the peak of his career, he however regretted that many medical graduates from Nigeria because of poor practical experience back home while in school are oftentimes faced with problem of using modern facilities when they find themselves practicing overseas.

 

 

He pointed out that despite the fact that Nigerians are as brilliant as their counterparts elsewhere around the world, their performances are being threatened by poor or non available training equipment and facilities.

 

“That is why we are also having problem of wrong diagnosis in the country’s health sector,” he stressed.

 

He however insisted that it was only when government start pumping in more money into medical education to address those challenges that they will be solved,” he said.

 

Arogundade used the occasion to appeal to the management of UNILAG to separate the Department of Clinical Radiology from Radiotherapy, otherwise known as Clinical Oncology for better service delivery.

 

By: Tunbosun Ogundare

National Mirror News