"Russia was one of the opportunities for me, luckily, the Russian government offered scholarships to students from our country, from high school, to come and study here. It's not just the past five years, which have been like more than 60 years since the time of the Soviet Union, a long time ago, we have been having students from my country and from other African countries to study here, especially in medicine and engineering and all these other faculties," he said.
"They don't just teach us like this in the classroom, but we get to see, even if it's anatomy, you get to see the muscles, the bones. If it's histology, you get to look at the microscope. If it's biochemistry, you get to see some titration. It's interesting right up to clinical, you go to the hospital, you see the patients, you have your stethoscope," the student remarked, calling Russia "a leading country in the medical world."
"We have to be grateful for the relationship between African countries and Russia," the medical student noted. "The world is improving and they [Russians] have so many new methods, new techniques that they use. So studying here helps you to learn these methods and these techniques. So when you go back home, you get to improve and help the health system and improve the life of people back home."
"Even down to the local level, to the villages, trying to bring people to awareness to know about the diseases and how to treat them and how to prevent them. So is a trend that has been going on in Africa, and we have come to understand that some of these things, we can't just sit and wait. We have to find a way to solve them," he said.