Uduaghan Solicits Support For Medical College

Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta on Friday called for support to enable the National Postgraduate Medical College to train doctors and meet international standard.

The governor made the call in Asaba when the President of the college, Prof. Victor Wakwe led other principal officers to pay him a courtesy visit.

Uduaghan said it was important that the college be supported with the state of the art infrastructure to enable it to train doctors.

“Failure to do this will be disastrous for the health sector and the socio-economic fortunes of the country.

“The college is for post graduate medical training. If we don’t act now, we will find ourselves in a very difficult situation in future.’’

Uduaghan said that the state had invested much in its health sector adding that it would soon establish a specialist Cardio-Renal Surgery Unit in the State Teaching Hospital, Oghara.

According to him, the unit will be built on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis and will be administered separately from the hospital for effective growth and control.

“We hope that the centre will fund itself after five years and be immuned from any outside interference.”

Uduaghan said the hospital had enjoyed the expertise of both foreign and local doctors, adding that the idea was to expose the local doctors to the best practises in the international arena.

Earlier, Wakwe solicited the support and assistance of the governor to enable it to meet the challenges of infrastructure being faced by the college.

He said the college had approached the Tertiary Education Trust Fund for help but was rejected because the college was not under the Federal Ministry of Education.

Wakwe added that other attempts aimed at sourcing funds for the college also failed, hence the need to approach those who understood its plight.

Wakwe said the college needed a multi-purpose hall for examinations, a paperless examination hall with computers and simulated manikins for training doctors and examination of patients.

“We did come knowing that you can help us. Please do what you can do to help us.

“For what you cannot do, please talk to people who can help us to sort out our problems,” he said.