Experts Have Identified Science based technology and deductive reasoning as panacea to many clinical problems in the country.

Speaking during a public lecture organised by the Lagos State Ministry of Health in collaboration with OGNOS

A Dental Surgeon from OGNOS Partners, Dr. Folarin Gbadebo-Smith said science-based medical technologies are to medical science what cellular technology is to telecommunications and thus stressed the need to put the right policies in place for biotechnology to thrive in Nigeria.

In a paper presented during the public lecture on 'Biotechnology and the Future of Medicine", he called on government to come up with policies that would potentiate the capacity of the private medical sector to optimize its service outputs"

Gbadebo-Smith stressed the need to review the curriculum of the Lagos State University, College of Medicine, create the appropriate departments, introduce Bioinformatics, Genetics, patents and intellectual property and other related subjects .

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said: "Medicine today is characterised by the need to know more, manage more, watch more, do more and with more people involved in doing it than at any other time in our history."

While stressing that the time to prepare to meet future health challenges is now, the Commissioner said that the current quarter of this century will be characterised by head-to-head competition in seven industries that offer high-paying jobs to their workers and bring prosperity and world prestige to their countries.

He said predictions of what medical care may be like in coming decades offer dramatic images of advanced healthcare.

Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr. Kadiri Hamzat said the theme was apt since technology allows quicker diagnosis for early treatment thus saving more lives as well as allowing better treatments and higher success rates of cure or slowing progression of the disease process.