The Niger State Government has set a six-month to one-year timeline to resolve the clinical training crisis facing medical students of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, IBBU, Lapai, following delays in the construction of the university’s permanent teaching hospital.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Murtala Muhammad Bagana, disclosed this on Friday at the Ministry of Health’s second quarterly media parley in Minna, assuring that the next batch of medical students would not have to leave the state for clinical training.
The first batch of 41 students had been moved to Zaria for their clinical training, but Bagana said the government was putting temporary facilities in place for the next batch while work continues on the permanent teaching hospital.
He explained that the construction project was delayed by a disagreement with the contractor, which had now been resolved, paving the way for the contract to be re-awarded.
According to him, “In view
