The Registrar, Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Dr. Tajudeen Sanusi, announced this in a notice on it’s official website, Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, (mdcn.gov.ng) on Tuesday.

The areas of specialities requested includee: Gynaecology and Obstetrics (10), Specialists Neonatology (3), Paediatrics (10), Ortho-Traumatology (4), General Surgery (11), Internal Medicine (10); Cardiology (1) Pulmonology (1), Intensive Therapy (2); Psychiatry (1), Anaesthesiology (10), Neurology (2), Urology (2), Ophthalmology (3), Gastroenterology (1), Nephrology (1) Otolaryngology (1) and Rheumatology (1).”

The notice was titled, “Notice to registered practitioners of urgent recruitment of specialists.”

It reads: “The Technical Aid Corps has requested the Council to bring to the notice of registered medical practitioners its need to urgently recruit specialists in the underlisted specialties for deployment as part of the Technical Aid to the Republic Guinea Bissau for a period of two years in the first instance.

“Interested specialists who are desirous of participating in the Technical Aid should apply to the Registrar.”

The proposed law for the establishment of the institution which was sponsored by the Senator representing Ekiti Central, Opeyemi Bamidele, was passed by the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday.

Bamidele said the Ekiti State Government has already offered to release about 1,000 hectares of land for the take-off of the institution.

The Deputy Leader of the Senate, Senator Ajayi Boroffice, and Senator Ibrahim Gobir supported the establishment of the institution saying that it will support research.

They noted that the outbreak of the pandemic has exposed the poor state of medical facilities in the country due to lack of adequate manpower.

They also said the establishment of the teaching university would hasten medical research into vaccine production in the country.

The Senate through a voice vote unanimously agreed that the bill be passed for second reading and the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, referred it to the Committee on Health, to report back in four weeks.