FUHSO defends MBBS accreditation process amid student protests

The absorption of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO), has defended its handling of the accreditation process for the university’s Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) programme pursuing caller pupil protests and nationalist concerns.

According to a property connection issued on Tuesday by the Head of Information, Public Relations and Protocol Unit, Mr. Sunday A. Igah, the assemblage said it considered it indispensable to clarify what it described arsenic misconceptions surrounding the accreditation issue.

He said the existent administration, led by Prof. Francis Uba, inherited large deficiencies upon assuming bureau connected May 13, 2025.

The absorption stated that anterior to the existent administration, the MBBS programme had reportedly not received immoderate Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) Resource Verification oregon Advisory Visit for 4 years.

It further alleged that statutory accreditation fees had not been paid and that engagement with the regulatory assemblage had not progressed.

The assemblage besides cited infrastructure gaps allegedly affecting accreditation readiness, including an abandoned Multi-User Laboratory project, lack of an Autopsy Centre, a deteriorated morgue facility, and laboratories said to beryllium beneath required MDCN standards.

FUHSO said the existent medication subsequently prioritised the MBBS accred...