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.

Kisra     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Emmanuel Bello     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Computer Based Test     SARS     SAPZ Project     Maryam Nurudeen     KWASSIP     Tosho Yaqub     Omotosho     KWAFFA     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Aminu Ado Bayero     Olatunji Ayeni     Erubu     Kayode Laro     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Eleyele     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Lukman Adeloyin     Amusa Bello     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Oba Abdulraheem     Musa Alhassan Buge     Tafida Of Kaiama     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Bankole Omisore     Baba Issa     Abraham Ojo     Turaki Of Ilorin     Hamid Bobboyi     ANCOPPS     Bamidele Aluko     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Florence Saraki     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Aisha Gobir     KSIRS     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Just Law Forum     Aliyu Alhassan     Odo-Owa     Olaitan Adefila     Yomi Ogunsola     Saheed Alakoso     Oye Tinuoye     Anilelerin     Oba Of Jebba     Olupako     Woro     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Okanlawon Taiwo     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Nigeria Customs Service     Shade Omoniyi     Mogaji Aare     Adebara     Abdulfatai Baakini     Agboola Babatunde     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Shettima     Third Estate     ASMAU PLAZA     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Ndama Al-hassan     Plat Technologies     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Budo Egba    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Segun Ogunsola     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Tafida Of Ilorin     Cornelius Adebayo     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Shagari     Gani Saadu     Kola Ologbondiyan     Mahe Abdulkadir     Owo Arugbo     Saheed Alakoso     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Balogin Alanamu     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Dankaka     Yetunde Balogun     Ganiyu Taofiq     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Akanbi-Oke     Principal Private Secretary     Bilikisu Gambari     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Ajeigbe     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Olam Food Ingredients     Millennium Development Goals     ARMTI     Oyin-Zubair     Muhammadu Buhari     Ilesha-Baruba     Yunus Lawal     2023 Elections     Ohoro Of Shao     Ibrahim Akaje     Simon Sayomi     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Roheemat Hammed     Oniwasi Agbaye     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Omoniyi Ayinla     Firdaos Amasa     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Eleyele     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Isiaka Gold     Ilorin General Hospital     Bola Sagaya     Magaji Nda     Omotosho     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Khairat Gwadabe     Binta Abubakar Mora     Kanu Agabi     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     SSUCOEN     Lanre Badmus     Gbugbu     UITH     Kazeem Gbolagade     Toyin Saraki     Opobiyi     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Pakata     Abdulhakeem Amao     Rotimi Oyedepo     Olofa Of Offa     Mohammed Lawal     Onikijipa     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     IEDPU     Deji Ajani     Maryam A. Garuba