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Lagos Medical School Students Lament Alarming Increase In School Fees Despite Poor Infrastructure

Lagos Medical School Students Lament Alarming Increase In School Fees Despite Poor Infrastructure
December 6, 2022

This school offers medical courses for two-year National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) programmes.

Students of the School of Health Information Management, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos State, have lamented the increment of their tuition fees from N186,600.00 to N258,100.00 by the school management amid poor infrastructure in the school.

This school offers medical courses for two-year National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) programmes.

In a video obtained by SaharaReporters, the school was observed with several dilapidated buildings. A classroom was seen leaking while raining.

The students who spoke to SaharaReporters on condition of anonymity equally decried the truancy of their lecturers and the quality of the lectures received so far.

"The school management has been sending us out for school fees for the past three weeks. Like secondary school students, lectures have been on hold. The fees have been exorbitantly increased by 30% which has been their regular culture every year.

"The school does not have its own building and even the one we are using now is collapsing. There is no increase in the standard of the school," one of the students lamented.

Another student also complained about non-release of their last semester's results and the non-supervision of their project topics.

"Most of our lecturers rarely attend class since we resume except some of the external lecturers, our Anatomy lecturer is not even in school today without proper permission to be absent (meaning she is happy we are not present).

"Result is not pasted and we are approaching the middle of the semester.

"Project topics and supervisor not out since last semester and yet they were complaining for late submission of topics. We start practical posting just last week since resumption," the student added.

Neglect of medical schools like SHIM LUTH contributed to the low rate of certified registered nurses and medical practitioners in Nigeria.

 

Nigeria is still far from the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the required number of medical personnel to cater efficiently for its teeming population as the government in 2020 disclosed that the ratio of doctor to patient ratio is 1: 2753 which translates to 36.6 medical doctors per 100,000 persons.

The government disclosed that registered nurses in Nigeria were 180,709, which translates 88 nurses per 100,000 members of the population, with the ratio of nurses to Nigeria’s population, being 1: 1135.