CENTRAL UNIVERSITY TO OPEN TEACHING HOSPITAL (BACK PAGE, NOV 18, 2010)

THE Central University College is to establish a teaching hospital and to offer medical attention to communities in its catchment area.
The 200-bed hospital will be equipped with facilities to handle referral cases.
At present, the university runs medical programmes such as nursing, pharmacy and physician assistants but sends the students to other hospitals for practical training.
The President of the Central University College (CUC), Professor Victor Patrick Yao Gadzekpo, made this known at the swearing-in ceremony of a 13-member executive committee of the college’s branch of the Physician Assistants Students Association of Ghana (PASAG).
He said the location of the university on the main Accra-Aflao road made it convenient to receive cases, including accident victims.
He explained that it became difficult for the college to start the physician assistants’ degree programme and was grateful that it had finally begun.
Professor Gadzekpo said the ratio of 2000 medical practitioners to the country’s estimated population of 24 million called for urgent steps to be taken to train more professionals to fill the gap.
He stated that the university was founded on the Word of God and, therefore, had compassion to extend its services to communities that lacked medical facilities.
Professor Gadzekpo called on the first batch of graduates, who have entered the job market after their graduation in October, 2010, to be committed to their work and exhibit different work ethics at their workplaces.
The outgoing President of the PASAG, Mr Shaibu Mohammed, called for international networking to pave the way for affiliation of the physician assistants programme with institutions outside the country.
The incoming President, Mr Emile Asiedu, expressed his gratitude to the students for the trust reposed in him and assured them of hard work to build a strong association.