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THE Anatomy Society of Nigeria (ASN) has called on the National Assembly and other authorities concern to speed up action on the review of the Anatomy Act of 1933.
Its President, Prof. Bernard Enaibe, made the call on Thursday at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), venue of the 2023 Annual Scientific Conference and General Meeting of the society.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that members of the society across the country, converged on the university for the 18th edition of the Annual National Conference.
According to Enaibe, the review has become necessary, in order to reflect the current direction of Anatomy practice globally.
“It is important to mention that the process of re-enacting the Anatomy Act of 1933 has passed the Public Hearing stage.
“We are very hopeful and ever committed to ensuring that the amendment process receive the necessary legislative backing in the shortest time possible,” he said.
Enaibe said that theme of the conference: “Anatomy, The Backbone of Medical Science”, was deliberate.
“It is geared toward the exploration of the diverse professional areas of the anatomical sciences,” he said.
According to him, this would, along with the Act review, create entrepreneurship for the burgeoning areas of the anatomical cohorts of young scientists, choosing anatomy as a career.
He said the society was also in support of the current drive skills for Post-Graduation challenges of the National Universities Commission (NUC) to position the Nigerian Universities among the best globally and ensure that Nigeria graduates acquire the requisite knowledge.
“To this end, ASN has identified with the ongoing general review of programme curricular by NUC and had made necessary contributions to the curriculum review processing Anatomy.
“Fortunately, our society had taken a proactive step, long before the NUC initiative, to overhaul our BSc Anatomy curriculum, in order to position it for entrepreneurial base and competitiveness,” Enaibe said.
Also, Dr Oluwatosin Ogedengbe, the Local Organising Chairman (LOC) of the conference, said that the conference was originally scheduled for 2022, but was postponed due to the eight months old strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Ogedengbe said that the conference, with the sub-themes, “The 21st Century Anatomists and Progress in Reproductive Sciences” and ” War and Natural Disasters, Roles of Forensic Anatomists”, promised to be a timely forum for discussion of the most recent developments in the global practice of anatomy and new challenges facing the profession.
In his remarks, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, Vice-Chancellor, FUOYE, commended the ASN for choosing the university as the host venue of the conference.
Fasina, represented by Prof. Akeem Ajiboye, said: “We don’t expect anything less than what we are seeing, at a time like this, in our nation.
“We need programmes like this and we are glad that it has been brought here in the university, which is one of the fastest growing universities in Nigeria. l appreciate the organisers for this.”
NAN reports that several distinguished speakers, including Prof. Olusola Adeeyo, Dean, Faculty of Basic Medical Science; Prof. Aladapo Ashiru, Secretary-General, International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS) and Medical Director, Medical Art Center, Lagos and Prof. Barnabas Danborno of the Department of Anatomy, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), spoke on the importance of anatomy to man’s existence.
It also reports that the speakers offered suggestions on how to move the profession forward.(NAN)
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