The Nigerian Medical
Association has rejected
moves by Enugu State
government to appoint a vice
chancellor on condition of holding a PhD.
Enugu State University Teaching Hospital
recently put up an advert stating a PhD as a
condition to appoint a new vice chancellor.
But NMA believes an MBBS—the bachelor’s
degree doctors get after medical college—is
equivalent to a PhD in both content and
curriculum.
It also means a post-graduate fellowship from
the National Postgraduate Medical College/
West African College is “superior to PhD,” said
the association’s national officers committee
which met in Abuja last week.
“We therefore call on the authorities of the
university to include in their advert the
fellowship of these colleges as an alternative of
PhD as already endorsed by the National
Universities Commission,” said the
association’s chairman Dr Kayode Obembe in a
statement released after the meeting.
The association has also condemned what it
called “illegal activities of [Medical Laboratory
Science Council of Nigeria] within the premises
of private practitioners.”
It accused the council of going as far as
“extorting money from our members.”
The accusation came after MLSCN early this
month inspected laboratories in the FCT,
including one owned by a private-practice
doctor in Gudu area of Abuja.
The doctor had refused entry to the council
inspectors, insisting it didn’t have right to
inspect his lab since his practice was regulated
by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
MLSCN had insisted it wasn’t inspecting the
doctor’s practice—just his lab.

by Judd Leonard Okafor

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