Medical Council inducts 60 qualified UniJos graduates as doctors

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria on Friday in Jos inducted 60 qualified graduates of University of Jos as medical doctors.
Dr T. A. B Sanusi, Registrar of the council, who administered the oath on the new physicians, charged them to adhere to the ethics of the profession.
Sanusi who was represented  by the Council’s Head of Registration, Dr Henry Okwuokenye, advised the new doctors to always give their best as they would be dealing with human lives.
He said: “You must be very careful as you are no longer students but doctors who would be dealing with human lives.
“Respect your senior colleagues and teachers as there is still much for you to learn from them.
“Always remember that first degree is not the end of studies in medical profession, you must keep updating your knowledge in order to be abreast of current issues and diseases.
“I wish to also advise you not to be in a hurry to go abroad because many that have rushed out are regretting their actions.” 
Prof. Sabastian Maimako, Vice Chancellor, University of Jos, said  that so much had been put in by government,  the university and the teaching hospital as well as individual families to bring up the inductees.
“This is our contribution as a training institution to to country’s healthcare system, knowing fully well the brain drain of our medical doctors to other climes.
“This brain drain is a great loss not only to the country’s investment but also the loss of skilled manpower that would have been available for our people,” he lamented.
Maimako, who was represented by Prof. Tanko Ishaya, Deputy Vice Chancellor Academics, said that the university would spare no efforts at building infrastructure and human capacity within the available resources to make the institution to be amongst the best.
The vice chancellor said that the College of Health Sciences would be a beneficiary of the efforts.
He announced that the university would soon invite the MDCN registrar to accredit the school’s Bachelor of Dental Surgery programme.
According to him, the university is expecting the National Universities Commission in the last quarter of 2019 for the accreditation of the BDS programme.
He said: “We will continue to do our best to access what is due to us from TetFund and other funding agencies to enable us build more infrastructure for the university.
“The good news is that we have received funding from TetFund for the faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture as well as to complete the abandoned multipurpose lecture theatre of the College.
“I believe the college has a pool of alumni that can assist the college and university to provide infrastructure as part of giving back to their Alma mater.”
Dr Alkali Mohammed, Chief Medical Director, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, was the medical elder at the induction.
Mohammed advised the inductees to do their best by putting in their best, saying, good product sold more.
The medical elder also told the graduands to consider the ethics of the profession as a guide.