Niger govt sets one-year deadline for clinical training of medical students in Minna

The Niger State Government has acceptable a six-month to one-year timeline to resoluteness the objective grooming situation facing aesculapian students of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, IBBU, Lapai, pursuing delays successful the operation of the university’s imperishable teaching hospital.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Murtala Muhammad Bagana, disclosed this on Friday at the Ministry of Health’s 2nd quarterly media parley successful Minna, assuring that the adjacent batch of aesculapian students would not person to permission the authorities for objective training.

The archetypal batch of 41 students had been moved to Zaria for their objective training, but Bagana said the authorities was putting impermanent facilities successful spot for the adjacent batch portion enactment continues connected the imperishable teaching hospital.

He explained that the operation task was delayed by a disagreement with the contractor, which had present been resolved, paving the mode for the declaration to beryllium re-awarded.

According to him, “In presumption of that, we person mislaid immoderate mileage, arsenic determination was immoderate disagreement on the way. But finally, we are astatine the constituent wherever the declaration would beryllium re-awarded to different contractor who would instrumentality america to the promised land.”

Bagana disclosed that the imperishable teaching infirmary is present e...