The Vice Chancellor University of Nigeria Prof Bartho Okolo Nsukka, has promised to provide conducive environment for medical students as to beat the past records of the school.
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Enugu Campus, Prof (Mrs) Ifeoma Enemuo, who was representing the VC at the weekend, when she declared open the 2014 homecoming health conference of past graduates of the College of Medicine of the institution, tagged University of Nigeria College of Medicine Alumni Association (UNNCOMA) made the pledge nu-behalf of the VC of the school.
She said the school would continue to give priority to its training and retraining programmes, assuring that the ongoing projects at the medical school would be completed even as he solicited the support of the private sector.
Speaking, the Provost of the UNN College of Medicine, Prof Basden Onwubere, recalled that the institution’s medical surgeons led by Prof. Udekwu in 1976, performed the first separation of siamese twins in Africa.
This was after it pioneered the open heart surgery in Nigeria in 1974, among several other medical feats.
Prof Onwubere noted that with improved funding of the institution and improved staff motivation, his team of doctors were ready to do more and make a strong statement on the nation’s health sector.
According to him, the school that started with less than 120 students in 1970 and currently has over 2,500 students, was in dire need of expansion, coupled with the difficulty of re-locating from old site in Enugu, to the permanent site of UNTH at Ituku-Ozalla in Enugu State.
UNNCOMA health conference was strategically designed to provide the platform for the over 3,000 participants to cross-fertilize ideas and draw inspiration from one another with a view to moving the health sector forward.
