The Governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia, on Monday, revived a physician’s coaching scheme geared toward boosting the state’s healthcare sector.
Tagged ‘medical doctors bond’, the scheme goals to sponsor medical college students in return for serving in Benue’s public hospitals.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that former Governor Samuel Ortom’s administration scrapped the scheme in 2017, triggering an acute scarcity of medical doctors throughout Benue’s common hospitals.
Below the programme, medical college students obtained monetary help from the state authorities whereas at college and have been required to serve for at the least two years after commencement.
Scheme reactivated
Talking at an induction ceremony of 41 medical graduates on the Benue State College Faculty of Well being Sciences, Makurdi, Mr Alia directed the rapid graduation of the physician’s bond scheme.
“The bond-doctors scheme is resurrected. We would like all our medical medical doctors to remain inside,” promising to “do all we are able to to offer greener pastures. Please, don’t go away.”
The governor’s directive adopted a request by the Nigerian Medical Affiliation (NMA) chairman within the state, Usha Anenga, that the scheme be restored to deal with the deteriorating healthcare system.
Some hospitals within the state have two medical medical doctors attending to lots of of hundreds of sufferers.
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The governor reeled out some interventions he had made quickly after taking workplace on 29 Might to deal with pressing points within the state’s healthcare trade – fee of N100,000 month-to-month allowance to medical doctors present process the obligatory one-year Nationwide Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme in Benue.
Mr Alia mentioned he had paid this 12 months’s residency coaching charges for medical doctors, which the NMA chairman confirmed.
To the lecturers who complained of a shortfall of their salaries, Mr Alia mentioned, “Contemplate the anomaly within the shortfall of salaries on the faculty mounted at present.”
Oath to serve humanity
In his cost to the brand new medical medical doctors, the governor urged them to mirror on the essence of their Hippocratic oath and “serve humanity” diligently.
He mentioned the college had a vital position in Benue’s development, urging the lecturers to drive coaching and analysis.
Earlier, the college vice-chancellor, Tor Iorapuu, a professor, suggested the inductees to be good ambassadors of the college as they ply their commerce.
Mr Iorapuu recommended the governor for being the primary to attend the college’s induction ceremony for medical doctors.
He lauded the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) for growing the college’s medical faculty’s admission quota from 75 to 150.
The vice chancellor recalled the inductees’ decade-long tutorial journey, commending them for his or her resilience.
In his comment, the registrar of MDCN, Tajudeen Sanusi, mentioned BSU Faculty of Well being Sciences “stays a shining instance” in medical personnel coaching in Nigeria.
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Mr Sanusi urged the inductees to imbibe moral values because the council wouldn’t hesitate to self-discipline erring medical doctors.
Toeing the identical line, the provost of the Benue State College Faculty of Well being Sciences, Chia Saalu, a professor, implored the medical doctors to indicate integrity and duty in the middle of their work.
He praised the inductees for his or her “years of onerous work and single-minded pursuit,” urging them to not overlook “their humanity” whereas treating sufferers.
The school inducted its first set of medical graduates in 2015. Monday’s occasion brings the whole variety of medical doctors who’ve graduated from the college to 367.
One of many highlights of the ceremony was the popularity of two feminine inductees- Dorathy Igbaver and Sandra Imenger – because the best-graduating college students in surgical procedure.
Additionally, the graduating medical class conferred an award on Governor Alia for his interventions within the state’s healthcare sector.
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