The Plight Of A Nigerian Medical Student

I was reluctant about sharing this post when I saw my last post on patience but I want o share it because something's are very painful.

So let's do this...

My name is **** ****The thing is_ there is a good news and a really bad news. The good news is that am done with all my postings after a six year training that lasted eight years in my school; University of Jos. It is supposed to be an accredited faculty and department but we spent eight years to complete all the postings. We had crisis but those in Maiduguri had worse. Oh... I remember, we also had strikes... so many from many angles. Thank God the postings are over.

The really bad news is that our exams has been postponed till further notice because there is an ongoing strike in the hospital. When the news came yesterday night, many of my mates cried. We had hoped that they would consider our plight and conduct the exams in other hospitals but they had made what we termed “the mean choice". Most of us have become apathetic about many things, the zeal that we once had has faded into insignificance. They have lacerated our emotions. Some of us are so confused now. Our rents are expiring, our parents are worried and guess what? No one has come to speak to us. Everybody complains of the falling moral and knowledge standard of doctors but look at the way we are trained; a training that makes us loose our minds. If we become strange kind of doctors, who have lost all empathy and emotions, who will blame us? God help us

It's really pathetic when I think of it, that this is happening at this time. This is the same University that went on a four month strike from last year October.

That's aside from the 4 months strike it went on in 2014 to 2015 because of students protest.

Thats just counting the recent ones oh.

How do you expect the zeal of the students to remain the same?

Presently, the set going to 400 level cannot start clinical because there is no space in juth, so they have to wait for the final year guys to leave before starting. They've been at home for more than 6 months now.

I wonder when the education sector in Nigeria will improve.

I hope this reaches the right people, and something is done about it.