Members of the House of Representatives, on Monday bemoaned the inadequacy of medical doctors in the country, stressing the need for more medical substitutions to train more hands with a view to bridging the gap.
This was a the federal government and stakeholders from Niger State, as well the healthcare sector threw their weight behind the proposed Federal University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bida in Niger state.
They took the decision at the public hearing organised by the House committee on health institutions in Abuja on the bill for an act to establish the university and four other bills.
Presenting the invoice, the sponsor and vp of the House committee on finance, Hon. Saidu Musa Abdullahi (APC, Niger) lamemted that Niger is the handiest country within the North-Central that has no diploma awarding organization in medication and health sciences.
He stated this became unacceptable thinking about the strategic importance of Niger country within the scheme of activities inside the u . S ..
“Aside being the most important country inside the united states with 76,363 Square Kilometres, accounting for approximately 10 percentage of the country’s total land mass, Niger state is home to Nigeria’s major hydroelectric power stations, the Kainji Dam, Shiroro Dam, and Jebba Dam in addition to the Zungeru Dam, that is currently below production.
He stated “The ordinary objective of this invoice is to steady a countrywide mandate to educate and train high calibre fitness-care professionals, offer healthcare services and to perform numerous faculties and specialties that offer exemplary education and nice studies in fitness care.
“Once the university comes on movement, it will provide extra possibilities and fair threat for Nigerians in search of to pursue careers in the clinical sciences and most importantly address medical group of workers shortfall in the country”
He informed that “At the moment there are 1,335 fitness facilities in Niger kingdom, out of which two are tertiary fitness facilities, 21 secondary fitness centers and 1,322 (99%) are PHC facilities. 1,1/2 (83%) of these PHC facilities are publicly owned while the last 227 (17%) are privately owned”.
Niger state has the best beneath five mortality within the north primary geo-political area of Nigeria and above the country wide average of 128 deaths consistent with 1000 stay births.
Conversely, Niger country has one of the highest numbers of beneath five years youngsters with fever, searching for scientific attention from fitness centers or healthcare vendors (73.2%), above north central average of seventy one.Eight%.
In his presentation, the minister for health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire supported the bill however stated the country has to develop the complete healthcare chain.
He said there ought to be at the least one primary healthcare in every council ward and one trendy sanatorium in each local authorities adding that the priority of the federal authorities became to construct number one and secondary healthcare facilities and rebuild tertiary fitness establishments for top-quality performance.
He said health institutions have been the muse for the education of high high-quality employees and.Musy be strong.
While affirming the listening to opened, the Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila noted that public hearings are an important part of the legislative method and an workout in collaborative governance, permitting citizens and stakeholders to make contributions their enjoy and perspective to the legislative process and make certain that legislative consequences mirror the issues and expectations of the best number of our country’s residents.
Represented with the aid of the deputy chief Whip, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha (APC, Abia), the speaker said “I guarantee you that your contribution will neither be neglected, nor taken without any consideration. I ask you furthermore mght as you're making yourselves heard, to accomplish that with circumspection and recognize for opposing views”.
He said every of the payments seeks to modify the architecture of our country’s public fitness offerings in approaches on the way to optimistically enhance the lives of our humans, both via growing alternatives to be had for clinical education or presenting get right of entry to to scientific facilities in locations where there may be an obtrusive need.
Also supporting the bill, leader of the Niger country caucus inside the National Assembly, Senator Abdullahi Sabi, advised all stakeholders to exercise their proper to expressing their assist to the bill. It could be very clear that Nigeria is lacking clinical employees.
In the identical vein, a former governor of Niger state, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, stated “We want at least federal universities of medicine and health services in all zones”.
In his submission, JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyode said universities need to no longer be set up just for the sake of siting of establishments however it have to be accomplished in collaboration with the NUC and federal Ministry of Education.
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