Jigawa State Governor, Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar, has provided full scholarship sponsorship to another 160 students (60 males and 100 females) to undergo MBBS in Clinical Medicine in Sudanese universities.
In an event at the Government House, Dutse, Governor Badaru reaffirmed that the purpose of sending the students to Sudan was to continue filling the ever widening manpower the gap in the health sector.
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This is contained in a statement on Friday by Badaru’s spokesman, Habibu Nuhu Kila.
He urged the students to be good ambassadors of the state, work hard to excel in their studies and to ensure that at the end of their course, they will render selfless service to the community in overcoming the health challenges in Jigawa State.
Badaru also reminded them that as potential doctors, their primary duty is to safeguard lives and treat patients with all the seriousness that the profession demands.
He vowed to ensure that no medical facility in the state, no matter how remote, is left without a medical doctor.
“Every Jigawa State community must have a basic healthcare facility. That is a promise we have kept and we have made up our minds that those facilities will always have equipment and manpower to run them,” he said.
In October 2016, a total of 60 students from Jigawa State who had required results in their examinations went through rigorous screening exercises and were sent to China to study Clinical Medicine.
“Already, those students have completed their four years of study and are now in various hospitals in the state undergoing internship as prerequisite for the fulfillment of the conditions of their medical training.
Governor Badaru has expressed satisfaction with the quality of the training they acquired from the Chinese universities, saying it was adequate. He said his government is confident that they will perform well in their responsibilities in the management of the facilities to which they are posted.
Kila said many other students have also been sponsored in various universities in Nigeria.
