By Chioma Obinna

President, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, NPMCN, Dr. Ademola Abayomi Olaitain, weekend, decried poor funding of the College, calling on the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, to release funds for the College to enable it get clinical skills and simulation laboratory.

Meanwhile, the college will this week confer fellows to 340 doctors who have completed the compulsory clinical placement and rotations of not less than five years in accredited Teaching Hospitals and Specialist Hospitals.  The new convokes have brought the number of fellows certified by the College to 5,387.

Briefing journalists in Lagos on the forthcoming convocation, Olaitan said lack of fund has continued to impede on ongoing projects at the College.

He explained that the clinical skills and simulation laboratory facility would help to train Medical and Dental specialists of the highest quality, competence and dedication in line with global best practices in postgraduate medical education.