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How teaching hospital will solve manpower problems in Kogi State, by commissioner

By John Akubo Lokoja
29 July 2015   |   5:40 am
KOGI State Government has said that the establishment of a teaching hospital at the State University, Anyigba, was to solve the manpower challenges facing the state’s health sector. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Idris Omede, said that the teaching hospital had facilitated the accreditation of the university’s medical programme by the National Universities Commission (NUC). “This…
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Kogi State governor, Idris Wada

KOGI State Government has said that the establishment of a teaching hospital at the State University, Anyigba, was to solve the manpower challenges facing the state’s health sector.

Commissioner for Health, Dr. Idris Omede, said that the teaching hospital had facilitated the accreditation of the university’s medical programme by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

“This development will bring about efficient health-care delivery in Kogi as the facilities at the College of Nursing in Obangede and the College of Health Technology, Idah, are being up-graded. They will provide the required training for health personnel that will render adequate services at all levels of health care delivery,” he said.

Meanwhile, Governor Idris Wada has charged old students of educational institutions to contribute toward improving the academic standard of their alma mater through the provision of social and educational facilities.

Wada made the call at the inauguration of a model clinic at the Boys’ Science Secondary School and a borehole at the Girls’ Secondary School both in Ochaja, Dekina Local Government Area of the state.

The commissioner said that government had given adequate attention to health care services in primary, secondary and tertiary levels in the areas of infrastructural development, procurement of medical equipment and recruitment of qualified health personnel.

Omede said that the concept of the teaching hospital was to provide training services and also go into research in the health areas.

“You know that if you are just a consumer, a time will come that the people supplying you may not be available to supply but; when you are producing, there is the tendency for you to continually be in the market.

“This is an institution whose benefits you cannot just see over night because training goes on for over a period of time, so, the benefit may take 10 years or more to materialise,” he said.

He advised indigenes of the state that were experts in the field of medicine to return to the state and contribute their quota to its development.

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