Ogun To Clampdown on Unaccredited Institutions Offering Nursing Degree
Ogun State Government says it has uncovered many institutions offering unapproved nursing degrees to unsuspecting students in the state.
Such institutions, according to the State Ministry of Health, would be shut down, because they would end up producing quacks who would not be issued licenses to practice in Nigeria and other countries.
Permanent secretary in the ministry, Dr. Kayode Oladeinde, expressed his concern over the development, during the seal up of the nursing department of Havarde College of Sciences and Management Studies, Obada Oko in Abeokuta.
The college was sealed up by the enforcement team, including officials of the state health ministry and Ogun State Nursing and Midwifery Committee, for offering a six-year degree program in nursing science without accreditation.
Oladeinde, represented by acting director of nursing service, Mrs. Serifat Aminu said, such institutions end up producing quacks in the nursing profession, who pose a threat to the health of the population.
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She said the college’s nursing department would remain closed until it was fully accredited.
Responding, a 300-level student, who wished to remain anonymous, expressed shock at the institution’s lack of accreditation, lamenting the amount of money her parents had spent on the program.
Inside Ogun private polytechnic running unaccredited law, nursing, pharmacy program, exposed how the private polytechnic was admitting students to study Law, Nursing, Pharmacy and other professional courses.
In the report, students of the college expressed concern over how they cannot distinguish whether they are in a polytechnic, a university, or both combined.
The students lamented that the college, which claims to have its accreditation from the National Board for Technical Education, was also admitting students to study Law and other courses that are never run by polytechnics.
