Maduako Igbokwe l Wednesday, October 6, 2021
ONITSHA, Anambra – Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University College of Medicine (COOUCOM) has inducted 85 medical doctors who have successfully completed the necessary training.
While inducting the fresh doctors, Vice Chancellor of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Prof Greg Nwakoby urged the newly inducted medical doctors to always observe professionalism in their practices. He urged them to handle every patients with care and seriousness.
According to him, medical doctors are for those who are called to the profession and not for all comers, noting that if one is called and he observes the rules , the person will do well. Nwakoby said that the medical profession not about making money but serving humanity and saving lives.
” I call on you to render this service selflessly as medical doctors. Your profession is such that you handle human lives. Medical doctor is based on divine call and if you are not called, you will be a medical carpenter” he said.
He also expressed confident on the quality of medical doctors being produced by the institution, giving the hi-tech equipment and the quality of staff in the institution.
Speaking at the occasion, the Chief Medical Director CMD, of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teching Hospital COOUTH, Hon. JOE Akabuike said that despite the covid 19 pandemic and residents doctors’ strike , the institution produced quality and sound medical doctors.
According to him, the institution is doing very well and that was the reason most doctors are poached by foreign countries immediately after graduation. He expressed gratitude for the numbers of medical doctors the institution produced and urged them to always display professionalism in their practices.
While the provost of the college Prof. Emmanuel Ojiyi said that he can vouch for the quality of medical doctors the institution was releasing to the public.
According to him, the quality of medical doctors the college produces are comparable to any doctor anywhere in the world. He said that the institution does not only produce for Nigeria but for the world, noting that he was confident that they will excel anywhere they find themselves.
Ojiyi however ,admonished the new medical doctors to be patient in their practice, stating that whoever puts money first in the practice may not achieve success. According to him, the essence of medical practice was to save lives and not to get rich overnight.
