The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi, has appealed for calm over the non-induction of the graduating dentistry students of the institution.
Her appeal comes amid the ongoing crisis over the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria’s (MDCN) failure to induct the 2016 Dentistry students within the next few months.
The Vice Chancellor, who was a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, The Morning Brief, promised the affected students and their parents that the issue will be resolved in the next few months.
She said, “I want to really appeal to the students and to parents because I have read somewhere where students are getting depressed and some of them are threatening suicide. I want to really appeal to my students to hold it, to be calm, that on my honour, we will see how, together, with MDCN (can resolve the problem).
“I am going to my minister to appeal to him to intervene because if we have some staff which is the critical issue, if we have staff and we know that the minister has given us the permission to employ, the sooner we employ them and get the dental clearance that MDCN has asked us to do, we will be able to invite them in the next one or two months and part of these problems will be resolved.”