The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has
expressed fears over the nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) as it continues to bit harder across the country. The association
stated that it is negatively impacting medical education and training of
medical professionals in the country.
In a statement made available to THISDAY, they
observed that the already four month old strike is negatively affecting the
educational sector which has been on a deteriorating side for some time now.
In the statement, NMA President, Dr. Osahon
Enable, said the association "expresses great worry over the inability to
resolve the logjam in the universities occasioned by the lingering issue of
ASUU and the federal government."
According to the association, the bottleneck in the
negotiations between ASUU and the FG has continued to disrupt the smooth
running of medical education in the country.
"We are deeply concerned with the impact of
crisis on the quality of university graduates, including medical graduates, as
well as the negative impacts of the deteriorating educational system with a
lots of capital flight on account of increasing enrolment of Nigerian students
in stable foreign universities."
They therefore called on the Federal government
and the union to speed up their negotiations in order to reach a common ground
for settlement and for the Federal government to fully implement all agreements
reached.
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