NMA, NANS back UI over new medical policy

In separate interviews with newsmen, the Chairman NMA in Oyo State, Dr. Muideen Olatunji, and the Vice Chairman of NANS in the state, Comrade Toheed Abidemi Niniola, submitted that the annual medical screening policy, if well executed, would go a long way in determining the health status of students and keep them fit at all […]

In separate interviews with newsmen, the Chairman NMA in Oyo State, Dr. Muideen Olatunji, and the Vice Chairman of NANS in the state, Comrade Toheed Abidemi Niniola, submitted that the annual medical screening policy, if well executed, would go a long way in determining the health status of students and keep them fit at all times, thus preventing unnecessary casualties.
While maintaining that there is nothing wrong with the policy, the NMA chairman specifically remarked that the best form of health service delivery is the promotion of preventive medicine, adding that it is better to prevent than treating or managing.
“So, if the authorities of the University of Ibadan now request students to do medical check up, may be, at the point of admission or once in a year or so, I think it is in order as it is just to help them keep fit.  By then, you can discover what could have been wrong with one person or the other and which eventually would promote the health of such an individual.  So, I think it is a laudable project if it can be strictly followed,” the NMA chairman stated.
He spoke further:  “With routine check up, you will discover whom you are and they can tell you what your health status is.  And it will help a person to know himself and then be able to initiative preventive measures. These are the advantages therein.”
Speaking in the same vein, the NANS Vice Chairman, Comrade Niniola, told newsmen that the introduction of annual medical check up for students by the UI management is “a very good step, if we are not deceiving ourselves.”