MDCN Inducts 25 Graduating Medical Doctors in Bauchi
By Idris Ayinde
The Medicine and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) on Thursday inducted 25 graduating medical doctors of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi.
Speaking during the induction, Dr Fatima Kyari, the Registrar, MDCN informed the doctors that they were not celebrating an arrival to their destination, but a commencement of the journey into their medical practice.
She said that the Council would register them after the induction ceremony and provide them with the Provisional Registration (PR).
“You are required to utilise the PR to create accounts individually on the MDCN Centralised Housemanship Placement portal and subsequently return there to select the available Hospitals of your choices for your mandatory housemanship training of two years,” she said.
Also speaking, Prof. Mohammed Shehu, the Guest Lecturer at the ceremony, urged the young doctors to respect human dignity and rights of their patients.
Shehu, who further called on them to always uphold professionalism and honesty, admonished the graduands to shun self advertisement unless if permitted by law and ethics codes of the profession.
In his speech, Alh. Yakubu Abdullahi, Senior Special Adviser on Unlocking Healthcare Value Chain to the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare said that the federal government is working tirelessly to provide a conducive environment in the health sector.
According to him, the federal government is leaving no stone unturned in its effort to provide an enabling environment in the health sector for practitioners in the country and eradicate the ‘Japa’ syndrome.
He said when these efforts began to yield results, it would encourage even those who had left the country to come back home to practice and further enhance the sector.
“There are two core areas of this initiative and the first one is the provision of an enabling environment in tackling every hurdle that is making it difficult for the medical and healthcare services in Nigeria less affordable and accessible.
“The second one is encouraging medical professionals that are even in diaspora to begin to see the reasons why they should come back home and put their talents, expertise, experience and knowledge in the healthcare service delivery.
“Thousands of them are out there in the UK, US, and other parts of the world for reasons being that the environment in Nigeria is not conducive and in this regard, we are trying to make some changes so that they are being attracted back home,” he said.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Muhammad AbdulAziz, commended the cumulative effort of both the Bauchi State Government, the Governing Council of the University and other stakeholders in ensuring that the College of Medical Sciences took off and was today getting its first set of students inducted by MDCN.
Represented by Deputy Vice Chancellor , Academics, Prof. Sani Kunya, the VC assured all the stakeholders that the College of Medical Sciences, just like the other Faculties in various other fields of study in the institution, would continue to provide the nation with quality trained graduates in both character and learning.
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