Ekiti State Ministry of Health has approached Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), to partner with it on the new 300-bed Oba Adejugbe Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, which is programmed to open to the public latest by the of May 2014.
Besides, the State Government is angling for the consolidation of the relationship between the university and the state government in the use of the state’s Public Health facilities through the design and signing of MOUs to ensure sustainability in the relationship.
The collaboration and consolidation of the relationship, when consummated, will enable the Clinical students of the University’s Medical College, benefit from the ever changing wave of medical education through practical professional training under time-tested and experienced Clinicians and Consultants, particularly as Medicine is veering away from the theoretical to the practicals.
Speaking with the Founder and President Emeritus of the University, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, recently, the State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Olusola Fasuba, who was accompanied by the Permanent Secretary, Dr. (Mrs.) Olomojobi and Permanent Secretary, Primary Care Development Agency (PHCDA), Mrs. Folake Alore, said both the University and Clinical students would benefit from the flurry of patients with different cases which will in turn enrich their knowledge base.
Fasuba recalled how the Provost, College of Medicine, Dr. Rotimi Sanya, approached the Ministry in 2013 to use its (the state’s) facilities to train some of ABUAD’s medical students to the advantage of the students, the university and the state at large.
In his contribution, Sanya confirmed that there are some extant MOU’s between the University and some existing facilities at Okesa and Odo-Ado areas of the Ekiti state capital.
As if already in agreement with the collaborative efforts, Sanya said: “Medical students who pass through General Hospitals are generally better than those with Teaching Hospitals background in that they have access to materials and people for research with the Ministry of Health being a good reservoir of quality personnel”.
In his remarks, Babalola, who spoke in the same vein with Sanya, said he would support anything that would assist in making ABUAD’s medical programme a great and enviable one.