Senate Committee on Health has urged Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria MDCN to blacklist foreign medical institutions that do not meet its requirements on training and practice of medicine in Nigeria.
Chairman of the committee, Ibrahim Oloriegbe, made the call in Abuja at an interactive session with executive members of MDCN.
Oloriegbe said that the interactive session with Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria was occasioned by complaints of subjection of Nigerian foreign medical graduates to six months mandatory internship programme before being certified to practise in Nigeria.
He said that the meeting was also aimed at reviewing the outcome of the 2021 foreign medical and dental licensing examination, held in Sokoto.
The lawmaker said that it was also targeted at presenting updates on issues relating to implementation of housemanship and licensing of foreign medical professionals by MDCN.
Although Oloriegbe frowned at admitting quacks into the nation’s medical practice, he, however, noted that efforts must be made to ensure that foreign institutions, where Nigerian medical students graduated, met MDCN’s requirements.
