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.

Orisa Bridge     Ayo Opadokun     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Ile Arugbo     General Hospital, Offa     Rotimi Oyedepo     Sebastine Obasi     Old Oyo     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Najim Yaasin     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     AGILE Programme     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     John Mayokun Dada     Ayodele Shittu     Mary Arinde     Adesoye College     Kwara Consultative Forum     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     John Olobayo     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     CACOVID Palliatives     Ilorin.Info     Femi Agbaje     Rotimi Atere     Quran     Nurudeen Muhammed     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Dan-Kazeem     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Wahab Femi Agbaje     General Hospital     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Sadiq Umar     Ojuekun Sarumi     REO CAKES     Okin Biscuit     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Modupe Oluwole     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Durbar Festival     Umar Danladi Shero     Sarah Alade     Amusa Bello     Valsolar Consultoria     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Olaitan Buraimoh     Moremi High School     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Ayedun     Aliyu Muhammed     Femi Oladiji     Salman Suleiman     Universal Basic Education Commission     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Kaiama     Omoniyi     Tunji Folami     Leke Ogungbe     Basit Olatunji     Owo Isowo     Kwara United     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Kwara State Football Association     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Al-Ilory     NFAI     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Bola Olukoju     Ado Bayero     Isaac Gbenle     Tunji Arosanyin     Royal FM     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Assayomo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     CCT     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Issa Manzuma     Quranic Recitation Competition     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Borgu     Amosa     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Kawu Baraje     Umar Saro     Valsolar Consortium     IDPU     Oke-Odo     Ekweremadu     T And K FOODS     Abubakar Atiku     Ayinde Oki     National Party Of Nigeria     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Balikis Jawondo     Moshood Bakare     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Tafidan Kaiama     Tunji Olawuyi     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Bisi Kristien     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Lanre Aremu     Elesie Of Esie     Congress For National Consensus     Kunbi Titiloye     Folorunsho Alao     Olatunji Ibrahim     Alimi     Olatunji Moronfoye     Frootify     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Principal Private Secretary     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Tunji Ajanaku     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Tsaragi-Share     CUTI     Kayode Issa     Undergraduate Bursary     Nurudeen Muhammed     Yetunde Balogun     Alikinla     Isiaka Yusuf     Baboko Primary School     Ramat Oganija     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Taofik Abdulkareem     Obuh     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Rotimi Oyedepo     Onilorin Of Ilorin     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Isin     Obasanjo     Ilorin Amusement Park     Amusement Park     Smart School     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Trader Moni     Hajj     Saka Abimbola Isau     V.O. Abioye     Sanusi Abubakar     SWAN     Kubra Kazum     Summit University     Lai Mohammed