Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has performed the maiden edition of the induction of 43 medical doctors of the state’s University College of Medicine.
He said at the induction held at the campus of the institution in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, that the development would boost his administration’s healthcare programme.
He charged the college to expand the scope of its research work not only for more break-through in the medical line but also for lofty placement of the university on webometric ranking .
At the occasion, Dr. Bankole Emmanuel emerged the best graduating student with distinction in Surgery and Clinical Pathology .
The governor who went down the memory lane, said : “I am particularly happy about the outstanding performances of these doctors in their final examinations. I was reliably told that the inductees recorded 100 percent in their examinations with a distinction in their MBBS examinations” .
In his own speech, the Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olubunmi Ajayi, noted that when the university was at a crossroads, especially when finance became a problem, Fayemi came to their rescue, saying: ” If not for this intervention, this epoch making event could not have been possible.
“Even the wife of the governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi paid the tuition fees of some of these doctors when finance was becoming a problem.”
While administering the oath on the new doctors, the Registrar of Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCAN), Dr. T.A. Sanusi, warned that whoever flouted the rules guiding the medical profession would be sanctioned.
On his own, the Provost of the College of Medicine, Prof. Kehinde Oluwadiya, said the new doctors have got the best of training and this he said accounted for the 100 percent pass recorded in the final examinations with a distinction in Surgery.
Oluwadiya appealed to the new doctors not to betray the oath administered on them, by being diligent and responsible wherever they practice .
