1 week Ago By Appolonia Adeyemi
The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has issued a 21-day ultimatum, threatening that it’s members would withdraw their services nationwide, if the Federal Government fails to meet it’s demands. This is contained in a communique issued yesterday at the end of its extraordinary virtual National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held last Wednesday. MDCAN is the umbrel la body for custodians of specialist care and medi cal education in Nigeria.
The communique noted that the agenda of the meeting was to appraise the discrimination of its academic and professional qualifications (the Medical and Dental Fellowships) mostly by Nigerian University administrators. The communique signed by MDCAN’a President, Prof Muhammad Muhammad, and its Secretary General, Prof Daiyabu Ibrahim, said NEC observed with dismay the intentional attempt and absurdity to benchmark the requirement of the Vice Chancellor position to the attainment of a PhD without regard to the Medical and Dental Fellowships. Recall that the University of Nnamdi Azikwe Medics Alumni Association had faulted the requirements listed by the university in appointing a Vice-Chancellor for the institution.
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