VC crisis at UNIZIK: MDCAN charges varsity administration with discrimination

The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, has accused the management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, of being discriminatory in the recruitment of a vice chancellor for the institution.

The Chairman of MDCAN, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH) chapter, Dr Amaechi Nwachukwu, was accused at a press conference on Monday.

Nwachukwu said it was wrong for the UNIZIK management to exclude medical and dental consultants who go through what he described as a very serious academic process, ‘even more than professors’.

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There had been protests by MDCAN, Unizik chapter, over an advertisement for the position of Vice Chancellor, which specifically stated that a candidate must have a PhD and must have attained the position of a professor, a position which MDCAN members argue is equivalent to their medical fellowship.

Amaechi, while addressing journalists, said, “The Federal Government needs to standardize the process of application for the post of university vice-chancellors.

“This will put an end to the anarchy bedeviling the post of Vice Chancellor, as we can see in Nnamdi Azikiwe University today.

“UNIZIK was discriminatory in its advertisement for the post of Vice-Chancellor. We wonder why medical doctors and consultants who went through a very serious academic progression, even more than professors, should not be allowed to be Vice-Chancellor, more so when we are the people training all the doctors in Nigeria.”

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He backed the recent warning strike by the association’s national body, insisting that the Federal Government should look into their demands.

“We called on the Federal Government to also ensure that all employed doctors are paid a consolidated medical salary structure, as was the practice.

“Our years of service should be harmonized to allow consultants to retire at 70.”

He said many Nigerian doctors are traveling abroad for greener pastures, a situation that has depleted the number of doctors available in the country today.