Of Medical Doctors, Professor Muyiwa Awe and the rest of us

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

Medical Doctors,Professor Muyiwa Awe and the rrst of us

By Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

On December 7 1973,exactly 59 years today, the Physicist

 Muyiwa Awe, now late delivered his inaugural lecture 

under the title,Physics at Ibadan:Developing Physics in

 a developing country.

I am not out to criticize the Doctors, just to make  observation.s as to the way forward

We lost some of our best physics students to medical school

             Doctors are very influential even in nigeria,for instance they haveat least i presume t five or six votes in the presidential villa,

First is personal physician to the president, second as personal physician to the firsty lady, then there is i believe the minister  of health, because the president's number 1 job is the wellbeing of  Nigerians, then the presidents has the director Army medical corps,because as commander in chief he wants to be sure the troops are in good health.then has his physician in london

All they might have been telling the president is to update equipment,buy more equipment and pay  the doctors more.that's not the way forward.we are all struggling to settle our rent for living on planet earth so one professor put it,

 you might have to hold all these doctors i have mentioned responsible for the state of health in nigeria if a i suspect they have not been telling the president certain things,

Like the need to empower our physicists,electronics engineers, material scientists and chemists towards developing a support base for medicine and healthcare to thrive.

One of the high points of the lecture was that Professor Awe  revealed that many of his Medical colleagues had been wondering what use was physics to a medical degree.

And in his lecture he labored to show how physics is connected with medicine.

  What has been happening is that medical doctors only seem to speak for themselves when they could speak for an overwhelming majority  that can help get healthcare moving.

   So you find out it's alright to import everything used to deliver health care except the  Doctor.

So all the medical equipment are imported, 80 to 9o percent of the drugs are imported, the hospital bed, the ambulance, the x-ray machine, the blood pressure monitor and the themometr.

Am I making sense?

All these things being imported to be used by the doctors , some nigerians right there in nigeria are trained to produce them or to do research towards producing them/