| First priority in Nigerian health services should be to satisfy the health needs of the whole community. The lack of physicians, nurses, and auxiliary health workers hinders progress. Highest priority has been accorded to the training of physicians and not to training medical assistants on a crash basis. Experience showed the shortcut method of producing doctors led to abuse of chemotherapeutic drugs and lowered ethical standards. The author recommends building a medical service of "highest quality" and rejects emphasis stressed elsewhere on quantity of care for a developing nation. |