The National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, NPMCN, at the weekend, faulted President Muhammadu Buhari on the dissolution of Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, saying, the dissolution will promote quackery in the health sector and as well allow cases of malpractices to continue.
The College stated this at a press conference in Lagos to herald its 33rd convocation.
Prof. Rasheed Arogundade, the President of the College, argued that MDCN should be exempted like the Universities Governing Councils have been exempted because of the disastrous consequences that such premature dissolutions had caused in the past.
According to Arogundade, since MDCN is a regulatory body set up by statute to carry out specific functions, dissolving it is the same as completely stopping all the functions.
He said: “The Council’s functions are strictly professional and regulatory in nature, including medical education, accreditation of professional institutions, maintenance of standards, and enforcement of discipline and also monitoring of health institutions that are training doctors all over the country among others.
“Almost all the members of the Council are by representation except the Chairman who is usually not a political appointee but a senior member of the profession appointed by Mr. President.”
Arogundade lamented that the existing Council did not spend more than one and half years of the statutory four years, adding that it should therefore be allowed to continue its work.
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