Health Minister Receives Report on Restructuring Residency Training
By Chioma Umeha
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has
received the report on Restructuring Residency Training Progamme from the
Ministerial Committee inaugurated by the Federal Ministry of Health in May this
year to appraise the previous committee’s reports on the Residency Training
Programme and to recommend sustainable uniform Residency Training Programme in
Nigeria.
The report was presented by the Chairman of the
Committee, Prof. Wole Atoyebi, Registrar, National Post –Graduate Medical
Collage of Nigeria.
Receiving the report, the Minister of Health
appreciated the members of the committee for working tirelessly to produce a
document that would serve as panacea to the residency training challenges in
the health sector.
The Minister assured that the Ministry of Health
would review the recommendations of the committee and take appropriate
decision.
“We will make copies and circulate it so that
those who want to make comments can put it across, I can assure you that by
next week, we would take decision on it, it is not something that would waste
away, it will also not gather dust, we are under pressure, but we also have
responsibility for the future of the health system.
“The trainees are quite critical to the delivery
of healthcare, so we can’t do away with them,” he said.
In his remark, the Chairman of the Committee,
Prof. Prof. Wole Atoyebi, said that during the course of their assignment, they
had reviewed three different reports on Residency Training Programme, adding
that all stakeholders were represented during discussions and memoranda were
also obtained from various bodies before putting down the report.
He said: “We found out that in the past ten years,
this is the fourth report on the
Residency Training Programme . The first was in 2006, second was in 20011,
third was in 2014 and this is the fourth in 2016.”
Prof.
Atoyebi said that some of the recommendations of the previous committees
that were found to be very useful and inevitable and have not been effectively
implemented were still included in the present report with the hope that they
would be implemented.
He however thanked the Minister for giving them
the opportunity to serve on the Committee.
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