US-based surgeon calls for enabling environment for medical discoveries – Punch Newspapers

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Femi Makinde, Osogbo

 A Professor of Surgery, Paediatrics and Obstetrics at the Baylor College of Medicine’s  Children’s Hospital,  Texas, United States, Prof. Olayinka Olutoye, has called on Nigerians to create an enabling environment for innovative discoveries in medicine and other fields.

Olutoye, who was guest speaker at the 11th Annual Prof T.A.I. Grillo’s Memorial Lecture themed,  Progress through innovation and discovery: Advances in surgery before birth and organised by the College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, urged individual professionals to identify problems in their areas and find solutions to them without waiting on foreigners.

Appealing to institutions of higher learning in Nigeria to make a way forward by creating an environment of transparency, accountability and efficiency that would manage endowment and naming opportunities, he…



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