The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has presented medical equipment to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara State.
At the ceremony, JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede said the equipment were donated by a grant agency in the United States of America called Project C.U.R.E, to 11 teaching hospitals across the six geo-political zones of the country.
Professor Oloyede said the donation became necessary to address the deficit in the nation’s health sector.
According to the JAMB Registrar, 11, out of the 12 tertiary medical institutions listed for the intervention made the list, after the board had paid a shipping cost of over $247,000 and about N25 million for port clearance and transportation within the country.
Professor Oloyede restated the commitment of JAMB to continue to be prudent in its expenditure and adopt cost-saving technology to support stakeholders in tertiary and health institutions.
In a response, the Chief Medical Director, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Professor Abdullahi Yusuf, commended JAMB for facilitating the donation of the medical equipment.
He said the equipment would relieve the hospital management of some financial burdens and also go a long way to improve the delivery of healthcare services to the people.
The former Chairman, JAMB, Dr Emmanuel Ndukwe, Chief Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Professor Adewale Musa and legal luminary Ola Ali called on other agencies and people of goodwill to emulate the gesture of JAMB in bridging infrastructural gap across all sectors of the economy.
Ali Muhammad Rabiu
