Medical students of Kogi State University College of Health Sciences stormed the Senate building of its institution to protest the continued non-accreditation of their faculty.
Students in the faculty have been stagnant for over five years now without professional examination to qualify them for clinical training in a teaching hospital. The protesting students demanded that they be addressed by the vice chancellor on the plan the school had for them.
The students decried the negligence they had experienced from the institution and the state government since they were admitted. The College of Health Science has three sets of medical students of which two are still in 200 level (A and B) and another in 300 level. The state had earlier set up a committee in December 2016 to work within six weeks and give them feedback, but the committee was reported to have worked for 12 months. The students said the committee was supposed to recommend the Federal Medical Centre in Lokoja, for the university’s teaching hospital, but decided to go for an upgrade of an ill-staff ed, ill-equipped and structurally backward diagnostic hospital in the university town for selfish reasons. “The state has been unable to start anything on the site despite approval of the budget which sits at a whooping N1.7bn,” the students said. The students cited schools currently using federal medical centres for clinical training, wondering why their case is different.
The students further revealed that “Ebonyi State University, Gombe State University, and even Afe Babalola University, which is a private university, use Federal Medical Centres. If a private university can use Federal Medical Centre, then the state university does not have any reason to insist on using a diagnostic hospital that has no hope of upgrade.”
Consequently, they said they Varsity places don on half salary over sex-for-marks UniCal warns students on cultism had not been able to write their first professional examination as consultants were running away from the school, demanding that the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, be used temporarily as their teaching hospital. However, the vice chancellor was said to be on an official assignment to the state capital, so could not address the frustrated students.
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