By Kolade Adeyemi, Jos
A consultant gynaecologist, Dr. Kenneth Egwuda, has called for more collaborative effort among players in the health sector to enhance better production of medicine in Nigeria.
Egwuda, who is also an IVF specialist, shared his thoughts while delivering a lecture titled: “Evolution 2.0: The future of medical science and the role of the players” held at University of Jos Multipurpose Hall.
The lecture was organised by the Natural Science Students Association (NASSA) in collaboration with Medical Science Students University of Jos.
According to him: “Evolution 2.0 is just an acronym to tell those students in biological and natural sciences that the medicine we are seeing today is more of a collaborative medicine, and it is not in the hands of one person like doctor or nurse but it is a collaborative work.
“My aspiration is to ensure irrespective of sex or gender, we put our heads together with the support of international organisations and the government, so that we can achieve a milestone in medicine.”
Stating categorically that he is advocating for collaborative medicine, the consultant, who is Head of Assisted Reproductive Technology at Alps Hospitals and Diagnostics, Jos, asked: “So how is doctor’s work if there is no physics and medical engineers to produce the machines that needs to work? So it’s all about collaboration and one man cannot be the star!…
He said the lecture is “to bring us to per with what is happening in the international societies, taking the treatment of one disease by the genetic makeup of the man, and the treatment can be better if the makeup of the man could be done with what I referred to as a book of life which is the DNA.”
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