The Medical and Dental Consultants Affiliation of Nigeria [MDCAN], College School Hospital (UCH) chapter, on Tuesday, known as on the Federal Authorities to sack the chairman of the Governing Council of Nnamdi Azikiwe College, Awka, Amb. Greg Mbadiwe, for making Ph.D. a criterion for the submit of the Vice Chancellor of the college, thereby excluding medical lecturers from the race.
MDCAN had declared a seven-day strike nationwide over the matter, starting from Monday. The UCH chapter joined that industrial motion. This has affected actions on the premier instructing hospital.
Talking at a press convention, which occurred on the MDCAN Lounge of the establishment, the UCH Chairman of MDCAN, Dr Oluseyi Akande, mentioned the strike turned crucial over the undue therapy being meted out to medical lecturers at UNIZIK.
Akande vowed that MDCAN wouldn’t enable the high-quality, time-tested, and hard-earned medical fellowship to be subverted, undermined, or disparaged by any college council in Nigeria.
The MDCAN boss was flanked by Dr. Abieyuwa Fagbohun, Dr Yewande Babalola, Oludare Olulana, and Dr Emmanuel Jite.
Akande mentioned the compliance to the strike was whole, besides in emergency instances to avoid wasting lives.
He mentioned: ”The strike is to press residence three calls for which the Federal Authorities has uncared for regardless of earlier engagements by our affiliation.
“Proper from the advert, the method excluded an essential and indispensable group of the College, the medically certified professors.
“The advert and the method surprisingly made a PhD diploma a prerequisite for changing into a Vice-Chancellor in that College. It’s a recognized incontrovertible fact that acquisition of a PhD is just not within the tract of medical teachers who’re holders of Bachelor of Medication, Bachelor of Surgical procedure and Medical Fellowship, which is an instructional {and professional} qualification required for appointment and development within the College.
“Please, notice that medical fellowships are awarded by related postgraduate medical schools established by authorities decrees. That is the worldwide commonplace, and it isn’t new in Nigeria.
“Nigerian Universities have been administered and are nonetheless being administered by many medically certified fellows who’ve completed excellently properly and historical past is there to verify.Examples on the College of Ibadan embrace Prof Adeoye Lambo, Prof H.O Thomas, Prof ABOO Oyediran, Professor Ayodele Falase, and Professor Isaac Adewole.
“The place of a council chairman and pro-chancellor of a college is so revered that it’s to be given to individuals who might be careless within the affairs of the College.
“MDCAN is not going to enable our top quality, time-tested, hard-earned medical fellowship to be subverted or undermined or disparaged by any College council in Nigeria.
“We demand for a direct sack of Amb. Greg Mbadiwe because the council Chairman of Nnamdi Azikiwe College Awka.”
