President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the medical manpower needed to curb medical tourism in the country will soon be realised.
Speaking on Monday July 18 at the groundbreaking for the
construction of the Administrative/Senate Building, College of Medicine
building and Principal Officers Quarters at the permanent site of the Federal
University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO) in Otukpo, Benue State, Buhari
who was represented by the Minister of Education, Prof. Adamu Adamu, said he's
impressed that the university’s management had hit the ground running and has
no doubt that the desired impact of producing high-level medical manpower as
well as curbing medical tourism will be achieved in no distant time.
Buhari also said that his administration recently approved
the sum of N3billion as a high-impact intervention fund through the Tertiary
Education Trust Fund (Tetfund) for FUHSO to further enhance infrastructural
development that will provide enabling environment for teaching, learning,
research and innovation.
The President also commended the Minister of Education,
National Universities Commission (NUC), Joint Admission and Matriculation Board
(JAMB), and Ministries of Agriculture and Natural Resources for assisting the
new university move speedily to commence academic programmes within one year of
its operation.
Earlier, FUHSO Vice Chancellor, Prof. Innocent Ujah, said
with the groundbreaking ceremony, the university's expectation of moving to the
permanent site will commence before the end of 2023.
Ujah added that Tetfund has designated FUHSO as the Centre
of Excellence for Infectious Diseases for the study of Lassa Fever, Ebola,
Covid-19 and other emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases, stressing
that the institution is engaging in partnership with other institutions within
Nigeria as well as some global institutions such as Emory University, Atlanta
and Northwestern University, Chicago, all in the USA.
Also, in his goodwill message, a former President of the
Senate, Senator David Mark, expressed fulfilment that what started like a mere
dream had come to fruition.
Mark, represented by Mrs Oowoo Mark Ameh, while urging the
management and staff of the university to rise to the occasion of producing
world-class manpower in the health sector, said the government and people have
high hopes that FUHSO will be among the leading universities in the country.
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