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Omu-Aran (Kwara) Feb. 16, 2017 (NAN) A medical practitioner, Dr Samuel Onuh, has called for establishment of more clinics in health institutions across the country, to assist medical students gain more practical experience.
Onuh, who is attached to General Hospital, Omu-Aran, made the call during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara on Thursday.
According to him, such clinics in different medical fields at various institutions would provide an in-debt practical experience to the students alongside their theoretical training.
“The establishment of more clinics became necessary to adequately prepare the students for the challenges ahead.
“This will avail the students opportunity to excel in their chosen medical field.
“Such move will also assist to raise medical standards of both the students and the institutions in terms of practical experience.
“The menace of inadequate medical manpower and infrastructure is regrettable and if not properly addressed, could be a stumbling block to government’s efforts at transforming the sector,’’ he said.
The medical practitioner expressed optimism that with clinics in place across the country, problems associated with the students’ practical experience would be half-solved.
“The establishment of these clinics is to prepare the student for the challenges ahead as regard the issue of practical, which remained an integral part of their academic pursuit.
“With a firsthand in-depth practical experience within the school premises, the students’ ‘Industrial Practical Attachment Training’ outside will become a mere formality.
“And by the time they graduate, their professional competency and expertise would have been greatly enhanced,” Onuh said.
The medial practitioner also decried the menace of obsolete medical equipment in most private and government hospitals across the country.
He regretted that the country was still lagging behind in acquisition of modern medical facilities in spite of many scientific breakthroughs and available modern and gadgets in that regard.
This, he noted, was responsible for the exodus of Nigerians to foreign country seeking medical attention. (NAN)
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Edited by Ifeyinwa Okonkwo/Felix Ajide