The registrar and chief executive officer of the Medical and Dental Association of Nigeria, Dr. Abdulmumini A. Ibrahim has said that doctors trained in Nigeria are qualified and can practise anywhere in the world.
He made the remark yesterday, while fielding questions in his office.
“We have a very good standard of training in this country because currently, we have 30 approved medical schools in this country that produce doctors with basic MBBS qualification who can practise anywhere in the world, not just in Nigeria. Annually, we produce about 3,500 local doctors. We also have some that are studying abroad. “Those ones, when they come back, they try to compare their level of training with our own indigenous graduates. We give them what we call assessment exams to test their level. Quite a number of them pass, but so many also fail. So, at the end of this year of internship, the doctors we produce are about 33,500, after NYSC. About 1,500 to 2,000 leave this country for greener pastures, and they are been absorbed. We have a lot of them in the US and the UK. If they are not good and well trained, they cannot fit into those systems”, he said.
He disclosed that government was making preparations to provide 10,000 health care facilities across the country.
Dr. Abdulmumini Ibrahim has been the registrar and CEO of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria since 2009 to date.
By: Chidi Nwachukwu
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