Tag: pioneer doctors
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Yaba Medical School was a colonial medical training college founded in 1930 to train medical assistants with the award of a diploma. The school represents the first steps in post-secondary education in Nigeria. ERJ Hussey, as director of Education in Nigeria from 1929 to 1936, through his advocacy for a shiftfrom literary education to practical…
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Medicine men in ancient Egba society, took Osanyin as their deity and holders of the title bestowed in its cult formed a close association, like they do in Egypt, where advanced practice of medicine, as mentioned in Homer’s Oddysey, is said to have “left the rest of the world behind.” Notwithstanding the historical connection, which ought…