The Federal Government has announced N110billion intervention fund to upgrade infrastructures of key tertiary institutions across the six geo-political in Nigeria.
The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, explained that the decision is to curtail the trend of medical professionals leaving the country for greene pastures in other countries
He disclosed this, while inaugurating the Ministerial Monitoring Committee on TETFund High Impact Intervention Project for Medical Schools Rehabilitation across the Six Geo-Political zones at the TETFund headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday.
He said N70billion will be spent on rehabilitating all the medical schools to be at par with international standard, while N15billion will go for building hostels for the medical students.
He said President Bola Tinubu has mandated key universities in the country to increase their admission quota for medical students, as a means of curbing brain drain in the medical profession.
According to him, the idea behind the policy is to train more medical personnel both for local and international job opportunities.
He explained that the intervention will be sustained over a period of five years, by the Federal Government.
Earlier, Chairman of the Board of TETFund, and former governor of katsina state, Aminu Bello Masari blamed Vice Chancellors for contributing to decay in the university system.
He said if the ntervention fund is sustained over a period of five years, the positive impact will become more glaring, because the results will trickle down to more medical personnel to serve the local population and well equipped human capital for export to the international community.