Immediate past Senate President, Senator David Mark, yesterday said that Nigeria needed no fewer than 200, 000 medical doctors to meet its health needs, adding that the current 35, 000 doctors operating in the country’s health system, was grossly inadequate.
Mark spoke as his bill for an Act to establish a Federal University of Health Science in Otukpo, Benue State, passed second reading without undergoing the traditional legislative debate in the Senate.
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The former senate president, who led debate on the bill, observed that the 35,000 medical doctors currently operating in the country, were grossly inadequate, advocating that the number should increase to at least 200,000, to be able to cater for the health needs of the citizenry. He added that the burden of conceiving the establishment of such university was necessitated by the ever-increasing call and growing needs to revamp institutions of medical education in the country.
According to him, “It is common knowledge that the health needs of the teeming population of Nigerians puts enormous strain and stress on the nation’s infrastructure and available health personnel.
“The existing medical schools based on statistics from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) admits less than 20 per cent of the candidates who desire and are qualified to study medicine in Nigerian universities.”
Source: New Telegraph News
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