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The President of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Prof. Rasheed Arogundade has advised President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to accord funding priority to the medical colleges across the nation.
This he argued would address the challenge of frequent visits to foreign nations for medical attention by wealthy Nigerians.
The Professor of Radiology, who gave the advice while delivering his inaugural lecture at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, said the focus of government has always been on the hospitals while neglecting the institutions that produce the human resources for the health sector.
Arogundade, who expressed his fulfilment for reaching the peak of his career, also revealed that many medical graduates from Nigeria are usually challenged abroad when confronted with modern facilities, which he said are unavailable for their training in their home country.
The lecturer, whose lecture was entitled; 'The Detective in a Radiologist,' linked the dearth of facilities to the raging problem of wrong diagnosis being faced in the country's health sector, adding that Nigerians are as brilliant as their counterparts anywhere in the world but are hindered by the poor equipment available.
He said; "Well, the solution to the myriad of challenges facing us as a nation should be that government should pump a lot of money into education and medical education in particular.
They currently don't allocate enough funding to the education sector and that is why the equipment we are supposed to be using to teach are not there. Most of our students who go abroad are usually as if they are starting afresh because they were more concerned with theories here without adequate practical experience. "
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