President John Dramani Mahama
on Saturday said government has given approval for the recruitment of 1,018 new
lecturers in all public universities. He said approval of the list presented by
the institutions was to boost the faculties of the country’s universities.
President Mahama said this at the maiden graduation ceremony of the University
of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho on Saturday.
A total of 166 students from
the School of Allied Health Sciences, School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences,
School of Medicine, School of Nursing and Midwifery and School of Public Health
graduated, were awarded bachelor degrees. At the maiden Professor John Evans
Atta Mills Memorial Lectures by UHAS recently, Professor Samuel Kofi
Sefa-Dedeh, Department of Food Process Engineering, School of Engineering
Sciences, University of Ghana, called for an end to “academic galamsey”-a
situation where lecturers are engaged with more than one tertiary
institution on part-time basis, and underscored the need for recruitment of lecturers.
President Mahama reiterated
government’s commitment to the growth of young public universities in the
country, and said a special allocation had been made in the Ghana Education
Trust Fund (GETFund) for their development. He said such a facility was being
invested in UHAS’s School of Pharmacy at Keta, expected to take off in
September this year. President Mahama said the country is indebted to the late
Professor John Evans Atta Mills for his dream for a specialized health
university and commended UHAS for graduating “seasoned and well-baked”
graduates. He lauded the University for its flagship programme-vocational
training, and urged the students to attach seriousness to it. President
Mahama asked the graduands to rise above all challenges to be worthy
ambassadors of the University. He advised them to eschew corruption, pride and
always be reminded of the Hippocratic Oath. “…give care and don’t take care
from your clients,” he said. Professor Fred Binka, Vice-Chancellor of the
University, who has ended his four-year term, said the University’s vocational
training programme helped students to acquire skills in the field and brought
the University closer to the community in the past four years. He urged the
graduands to take advantage of opportunities to further develop themselves.
Prof Binka said the future of UHAS is bright and expressed optimism that the
University would be among the best 10 universities in the world in 10 years. He
urged the new Vice-Chancellor to be firm and fair and maintain the University’s
partnership with stakeholders. Professor Kofi Anyidoho, Chairman of the
University’s Governing Council, commended the graduands for keeping faith with
UHAS despite the challenges. Mr. Mawulewoge Akoto, Overall Best Student,
Nursing and Midwifery in a valedictory address, said “our once distant future
is no longer a mirage but a reality.” Students who excelled were given cash
prizes between GH¢ 200.00 and GH¢ 1,000.00 The University also awarded special
honourary doctorate degrees to Mrs Ernestina Naadu Mills, former First Lady, Dr
Christian Botchway, a renowned Dentist and Professor Samuel Kofi Sefa-Dedeh, a
Scientist, Technologist, Researcher, Administrator and Food Industry
Consultant. UHAS was established by an Act of Parliament, Act 828 of December,
2011. It is the first university dedicated only to issues of health in the
country and the first public university in the Volta Region.
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Source:Citifmonline
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