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The Vice Chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Prof. Adeniyi Gbadegesin, has lauded Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, for his efforts towards ensuring adequate security at student hostels around the university.
Gbadegesin said this in an interview
with our correspondent in Osogbo on the sidelines of the 12th induction
of newly qualified medical doctors of the university.
The university is a non-residential one
and some students were recently attacked and raped by some hoodlums who
stormed their hostels and forced the students to also sex with their
fellow hostel mates.
The vice chancellor said Ajimobi had
since beefed up security around private hostels in other parts of the
town, saying this had since stopped the operations of the hoodlums.
Provost of the College of Health
Sciences, Professor Sunday Taiwo, said in his speech that the number of
medical doctors being produced annually from over 30 medical schools in
the country were insufficient to take care of the health needs of around
170 million Nigerians.
He said, “The need for quality
healthcare for Nigeria has been recognised as far back as 1960s when the
first medical school was established. This has since grown
exponentially through the years and today there are 39 fully or
partially accredited medical schools, with LAUTECH College of Health
Sciences among the fully accredited ones. All these medical schools
combined together can only admit and graduate about 3,000 doctors and
dentists annually.”