UNILORIN Students Renovate Public Toilets, Health Infrastructure In Kwara Rural Communities

Date: 2022-01-19

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.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Mahee Abdulkadir     Emir Of Lafiagi     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Frootify     IPSAS     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Ayinke Saka     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Ben Duntoye     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Sarah Jubril     Isapa     Ndama Al-hassan     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Amule Elementary School     Omoniyi     Isau     IHS Towers     Ali Ahmad     Sunday Fagbemi     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Ohoro Of Shao     Shagari     KWASSIP     Baaziki Sulaiman     Offa     Fatimoh Lawal     Olaosebikan     KWSIEC     Kale Ayo     Bashiru Makama     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Lola Ashiru     Kolawole Akande     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Kwara TV     James Kolo     KFA     Obuh     Bashirat Bola Bello     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Ahman Pategi     Abdulrahman Iliasu     T And K FOODS     Kumbi Titiloye     Owo Arugbo     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Gbenga Olawepo     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     United Nigeria Airline     Owu Fall     Solomon Edojah     Idowu Laro     Labour Party     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Quranic Recitation Competition     Bature Bello     Gbugbu International Market     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Sunset Workers     Yusuf Badmus     Moronfoye     Abdullahi Samari     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Radio SBS     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Christopher Odetunde     A.E. Afolabi     Yunus Oniboki     08001000100     Jide Ashonibare    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Radio SBS     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Alore     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Wole Oke     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Saliu Ajia     Teachers Specific Allowance     Baruba     NSCIA     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Saliu Mustapha     Oloyede     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Shagari     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Ado Bayero     Taiwo Joseph     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Sabitiyu Grillo     Yakub Ali-Agan     Baaziki Sulaiman     Isa Aremu     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Wasiu Onidugbe     Raymond Olaitan     Obayomi Azeez     Lanre Aremu     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Ilorin Emirate     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Local Government     Kwarareports.com     Air Peace     Magaji Nda     Abatemi Usman     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Aisha Buhari     Borgu     School Of Nursing     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Metro Park     RTEAN     Elerin Of Adanla     Computer Based Test     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Osinbajo     Royal FM     Razak Atunwa     COVID     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Tunji Arosanyin     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Sola Saraki University     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Umar Saro     Pakata Development Association     Lucky Omoluwa     Playing Host     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Funke Adedoyin     Funmilayo Mohammed     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Yekeen Alabi     Hassan A. Saliu     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Shao     Alanamu     Pakata     Durbar     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Omotoso Musa     KWATMA