The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has warned Nigerians to be mindful of the countries they send their children for medical and dental education because "it is not all the medical institutions abroad that are good enough."
The council said it would embark on measures to ensure that "dangerous people, who are not well trained and people who have not satisfied minimum conditions" were not unleashed on Nigerians.
The acting registrar of MDCN, Dr. Udugbai Illevbare, said this in an interview with SATURDAY PUNCH in Abuja, at the induction ceremony for foreign medical graduates, who succeeded in the council's assessment examination held between April 4 and 5 at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.
Out of the 142 candidates that sat for the examination, only 85, representing 60 per cent passed.
But it was better for candidates of dentistry as all the seven who sat for the exam passed.
According to Illevbare, the MDCN has a duty to ensure that dentists and doctors, who pass through the council and wish to practise medicine and dentistry in Nigeria, possess the requisite qualification.
He said, "We must go ahead to verify and test them; this was why we started this issue of having to subject them to assessment and examination.
"In this particular exam, only 60 per cent passed; that tells us that not all doctors who were trained abroad are fit to practise in this country."
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