Provost, Ogedegbe tasks FG to prevent quackery in health sector in Nigeria 

By Matthew Denis, Nasarawa

The Provost of Jubilation College of Health Sciences and Technology in Karu Local Government of Nasarawa state, Babatunde Ogedegbe has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration to come up with stringent academic regulations in the health sector to reduce quackery  in the country. 

Ogedegbe made this known in an interview with newsmen at his office, Thursday.

Recall that Jubilation College of Health Sciences and Technology is among the 36 accredited Community Health Training Institutions in North Central, by the Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria (CHPRBN) as at January, 2024

“Some of the challenges confronting the health institutions is that we are  in age and time that students like to cut corners by not going through the right duration for professional training and in our college here we don’t attend to such therefore some of them leave to seek mischievous desires in other institutions that engage in such sharp practices. 

“This mischievous activities is gradually affecting the population of genuinely registered institutions but in our part we are not disturbed as far as we’re giving the students the basic training as faith based institution. 

“Our focus is to build standard and we believe those students remaining passing through the school will always become our good ambassadors. We keep progressing and maintaining the standard on the mission and objective of school” he stated. 

The provost, Ogedegbe further tasked on the government to strengthen the registration measures of health institutions for quality output for the practitioners. 

He said “we are urging the Federal government to put in place stringent academic regulations  for health schools and ensure a monitoring culture for strict adherence to the rules”.

Speaking on the lingering issue of ‘Japa Syndrome’ the Provost enjoined the government to prioritize health practitioners welfare. 

“I will advice that the government should pay more attention on the welfare of the health practitioners in the country in terms of salary enumeration and providing them with basic working tools at the various health facilities in the country. 

“The truth is that if the working conditions are fine most of the people will not be traveling out of the country seeking greener pastures. We are blessed in Nigeria but today we have shortage of medical workers.”

The Provost disagreed on the argument that the academic health sector curriculum is outdated and should be reviewed to tally with modern practices.

“I don’t believe that the health sector curriculum is  outdated because most of the best hands in the health sector in abroad are Nigerians and trained  here. Our people are hardworking and all we need is to fix the facilities” he stressed.