The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has conducted an inspection of the State Specialist Hospital Ikere-Ekiti in readiness for accreditation of the hospital’s housemanship programme.
Addressing critical stakeholders during the inspection, the leader of the accreditation team and the Deputy Registrar of the Council, Dr Nwemeka Nwakanma, stated that the accreditation visit was part of the process to ensure that necessary equipment, facilities and personnel are on the ground for proper training of the medical students.
Dr Nwakanma noted that the team was not a fault-finding one, but one that is primed towards ensuring that the core vision of the council, which is to regulate the practice of medicine, dentistry and alternative medicine most efficiently and safeguard the best healthcare delivery for Nigerians are met.
The Council’s Deputy Registrar said that the visit was also to ensure that the Specialist Hospital Ikere-Ekiti, as a training institution, was made conducive and properly equipped for adequate and effective training of the medical officers.
While calling on the management of the hospital to fix the identified gaps, the leader of the team assured the state of a positive report on the accreditation exercise.
He commended the Ekiti government for transforming the healthcare system of the state which he noted has made the council recently double the number of medical students intake into the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the hospital’s Management Board, Dr Austine Ibikunle, said that the Ekiti State government has invested much in transforming the state health sector.
Dr Ibikunle noted that Governor Biodun Oyebanji has renovated and equipped nine General hospitals, adding that the salaries of health workers in the State were competitive and encouraging compared to the Federal and other states in Nigeria.
The Permanent Secretary of the Hospital’s Management Board, Dr Olasunkanmi Alabi, disclosed that the facility was accredited in the year 2016 for five years and expressed hope that it would be accredited to allow medical officers to undergo horsemanship training there.
Dr Alabi said that the state government has been very passionate about health matters assuring that the facility would be made conducive. Available and properly equipped with relevant personnel to ensure the success of the horsemanship programme.
The accreditation team include: Prof.Ernest Anyabolu, Prof. Edwin Eseigbe, Prof. Steven Yiltok and Prof.Uche Onwudiegwu.
Others are Mr Daniel Tyovenda and Mr David Omoregie.
