LAGOS – A pharmacologist , Prof. Maurice Iwu, said on Monday that synergy among medical researchers in public and private sectors would enhance the quality of output in medical research in Nigeria.
Iwu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that lack of collaboration between the public and private sectors contributed to the low impact of research being carried out.
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“We lack the culture of research, research has a culture. Scientific research and medical research is like tennis, you play it and somebody has to return that ball.
“ And that is something we are lacking in this country and that tends to lower the impact of research.
“The other issue is the non-involvement, non-engagement of the private sector.
“We have to know what is going on in the public research centres and the only way we can do that is by a direct and deliberate effort to engage.
“If you don’t do that deliberate effort to engage, it limits the whole ability to be able to do functional educational research.
“But it is very important that scientists, as they are doing their research, have to bear these components in mind that there is lack of research culture in the country.
“ And that they will also have to deliberately engage the private sector.
“We have not done that in any sufficient manner.’’
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