The Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University College of Medicine (COOUCOM) has inducted 85 medical doctors who successfully completed their training.
While inducting the fresh doctors, the vice chancellor of the university, Prof Greg Nwakoby, urged them to always observe professionalism in their practice.
He also called on the new medical doctors to handle every patient with care and seriousness, noting that the profession is for those who are called and not for all comers.
He expressed confidence in the quality of medical doctors being produced by the institution, giving the hi-tech equipment and quality of staff in the institution.
The Chief Medical Director of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Joe Akabuike, said the institution was able to produce the doctors despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the industrial action by residents doctors.
The provost of the college, Prof. Emmanuel Ojiyi, said he could vouch for the quality of medical doctors the institution was releasing to the public.
According to him, the quality of medical doctors the college produced was comparable to any anywhere in the world.
Ojiyi admonished the new medical doctors to be patient in their practice, adding that the essence of medical practice was to save lives and not to get rich overnight.
