College of Health Science calls for business partnership

The College of Health Science Council of the University of Ghana has launched its 10th Anniversary celebration with a call on the business community to partner with the college to help provide the country the needed health human resource.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Postgraduate Endowment Fund, Mr. Sam Okudzeto who made the call at the ceremony in Accra urged corporate bodies, non-governmental organizations, philanthropists, government and all stakeholders to support postgraduate training in order to save lives.

“The College would continue to help train world class doctors, specialists, Allied Health professionals and nurses who would serve as agents for the achievement of excellence that would propel the college agenda,” he said.

Mr. Okudzeto said the rampant loss of the best brains could be reduced if Ghanaians supported the institute, adding that the dangers in travelling abroad for medical attention entail the possible death of patients midway because of the distance involved.
Prof. Aaron Lawson, Provost of the College, speaking under the theme: “The College of Health Sciences: A decade of Achievement and future prospects,” indicated that some of the challenges bedeviling the College’s fortunes were limited budgetary support, poor infrastructure, aging faculty and inadequate capacity for research.

He stated that the College was developing its second strategic plan, which would include the liberation of the College legally, financial empowerment, and the establishment of a human resources framework that would inspire and motivate the organisation, infrastructural expansion and modernization and developing of new activities to bring a complete growth.

Prof. Lawson revealed that the College had planned to relocate to the University of Ghana campus, where a 400-acre land had been earmarked for a College complex. This will provide capacity for training more health professionals for the country.

“In the foreseeable future the college hopes to add a new Teaching Hospital, School of Biomedical Sciences, a central administration, a diagnostic centre and blocks for the school of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing and Dentistry.”

Mr. Edward Effah, Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Ghana said the College provides a central administration for all the health-related institutions in the University of Ghana.

“It fact, it is the umbrella under which all the health- related institutions come together to ensure that they are able to produce highly qualified and competent health professionals and medical scientist to provide preventive and curative services to meet the health needs of Ghanaians,” Mr. Effah said.

College of Health Sciences is an Institution of the University of Ghana under the Ministry of Education. The College provides human resources for the Ministry of Health.