UNILORIN Medical Students Renovate Public Health Infrastructure in Rural Communities

Date: 2022-01-17

Medical students of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Kwara State studying in the area of Public and Community Health have carried out some health infrastructural facilities and provisions in some selected rural communities of the state.

Speaking during their field posting presentations as part of requirements for the award of Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree, the undergraduates said that such programmes as renovation of public health centres, public toilets, drilling of boreholes and purchase of generating set, among other activities were carried out.

Speaking with journalists after the presentations, the coordinator, Field Posting programme, Dr Femi Oladiji, said that the students after their 12 weeks of field posting experience also carried out such activities such as free medical consultation, testing and treatment, participation in COVID-19 vaccination, donation of drugs, public health education and enlightenment on prevailing health challenges etc.

Dr Oladiji, who said that the main objective of the field posting was to ensure that the students acquire skills and competence in areas of health planning, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation, added that it was also aimed to develop analytical communication and fundraising skills while addressing community priority health needs of the communities.

During their presentations, the students said that the field posting activities were carried out in the selected six local government areas of Asa, Ifelodun, Irepodun, Ilorin West, Ilorin South and Moro local government areas, particularly in Elerinjare-Ibobo, Ajia-Bako, Ajikobi, Egbejila, among other communities.

The MPH undergraduates, who identified malaria and diarrhoea as major health challenges in the selected communities, said that the larger percentage of the population practised openly faecal defecation and indiscriminate dumping of refuse.

They also discovered that many of the schools and residential houses lacked toilets and refuse dumpsites, calling on the relevant authorities to improve public health care in the areas.

In his speech, the Head of Department (HOD) of Epidemiology and Community Health, Professor Omotoso Musa, said that the programme aimed at ensuring that the undergraduates gained practical ability and experience “from communities where the interventions were carried out, aside from theories taught in classes”.

The above was corroborated by the presenters, who assented to the fact that the field posting experience afforded them the reality of theories taught in classes.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Jimoh Akani     Olosi Of Osi     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Funmi Salau     Hausa     Ibrahim Bio     Labour Party     Magaji Erubu     Gaa Olobi     Village Alive Development Association     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Bola Sagaya     Idowu Laro     Aso-ofi     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Iponrin     Valsolar Consultoria     Balogun Gambari     Baba-Isale     Alaro     Kwara North     Raji AbdulRasaq     Alabere     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Garba Idris Ajia     Deji Ajani     NNPP     Pategi     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Kulende     GGDSS Pakata     JSSCE     Olohungbebe     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Gbenga Adebayo     Razak Atunwa     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Vasolar Consortium     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Rueben Parejo     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Law School Scholarship     Michael Nzwekwe     Abdullahi Atanda     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Peter Obi     Saka Keji     Ado Bayero     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Ganiyu Abolarin     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Raymond Olaitan     07039448763     School Of Nursing     Ile Arugbo     Okanlawon Musa     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     FERMA     Ajase-Ipo     Kabir Shagaya     NAWOJ     Mazars Consulting     Okin Group     Lucky Omoluwa     Abubakar Atiku     Segun Adeniyi     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Emir Of Ilorin     Bello John Olanrewaju     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Kunle Suleiman     Marufat Oladosu     Modibo Kawu     Omotoso    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kayode Alabi     Babata     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Aliyu Muhammed     CUTI     Lola Ashiru     Akeem Olatunji     Ilorin Durbar     Donatus Ejidike     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Owo Arugbo     Michael Ologundea     Kwara State Fire Service     Balikis Jawondo     Quran     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     IFK     Kwara State University Of Education     ITP     CACOVID     Kwara State Government     NIRSAL     March 18     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Dan Iya     Adamu Attah     Agboola Babatunde     Ilorin Emirate     John Olajide Adedipe     Rex Olawoye     Rapheal Ashaolu     Bilikisu Gambari     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Amuda Bembe     Olaitan Buraimoh     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     EFCC     Olatunde Olukoya     Olatomiwa Williams     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Ijagbo Health Centre     Dorcas Afeniforo     Sardauna Of Ilorin     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Mohammed Ibrahim     Oluronke Adeyemi     Oniwa     Bilikis Oladimeji     George Funsho Adebayo     Ayekale     Kazeem Gbolagade     Democracy Day     Simeon Sayomi     Joseph Offorjama     Durosinlohun Kawu     Ajase-Ipo     Ganiyu Abolarin     Minimum Wage     Hamidu Olowo     Kwara North     Kale Bayero     Shola Odetundun     Kwara State Football Association     Jamiu Oyawoye     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Oba Abdulrahim     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Omotoso     Abdulwahab Oba     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     PharmAccess Foundation     National Information Technology Development Agency     Isiaka Alikinla