The United Nations Populations Fund has donated some medical equipment to the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo town, Ondo State.
Apart from the equipment, the department’s laboratory was also renovated, courtesy of the UN agency.
Speaking during the inauguration of the equipment and the laboratory at the Pre-Degree hall, UNIMED, Akure Campus, the Vice Chancellor of the varsity, Prof. Adesegun Fatusi, said the equipment would aid the comprehension of the students in training.
According to him, the new clinical skill laboratory will help the students do better in their training,
He said, ” This is not a question of making the students pass examinations but to ensure that the students who have already been well-trained can have competence and knowledge in the process of their training and experience almost real-life experience.
This is a wonderful opportunity; a great achievement, and we thank God for the partnership, and we want to thank our partners for making this a reality.
“The donations are of different types, but they are all models; like model of a woman that is pregnant, model of newborn baby, model of placenta among others.”
The VC noted that in modern training, one of the things “we do is to expose students to real-life patients without showing them and allow them to develop skills and competence in terms of working with a manikin ( one of the equipment donated).”
Also speaking, the Head of UNFPA, Lagos Liasion office, Dr. Omolaso Omosehin, who was represented by Dr. Akinkumi Akinbajo, said their motive for the gesture was to end preventable maternal death by 2030.
Omosehin noted that the other goals are to end the unmet need for family planning, all formers of gender-based violence and female genital mutilation, early child marriage, and all other harmful traditional practices.