Cosmopolitan University, Abuja, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Ministry of Health to enhance medical education and training, particularly for nursing and other healthcare-related courses. The agreement will allow students from Cosmopolitan University to undertake their clinical training at the National Hospital, Abuja, a move that aims to address workforce challenges in Nigeria’s healthcare sector. Speaking at the signing ceremony, Coordinating Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Prof.
Muhammad Ali Pate, emphasised the significance of the partnership in strengthening the country’s medical workforce, adding that it would fill the gap created by those leaving Nigeria for other countries. “If we weren’t training them, they wouldn’t have been attractive to other countries. But because Nigerian health workers are known, are well trained, people come to take them.
Unfortunately, that has implications on the service delivery here at home. “So as a government, we took a progressive stance to say, look, let’s train more so that even those who are trained leave, some of them leave, some will stay. And even those who have gone away might come back to serve.
And that’s behind the policy that this administration has passed and the president approved it,” he said. Prof. Pate assured that the expansion of training opportunities would not compromise professional standards, as regulatory bodies would oversee compliance.
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