As AKHA passes college of health technology bill into law.
By John Ernest
The former School of Health Technology in Etinan is now to be known and addressed as the College of Health Technology with a Provost as the head of the institution. The new name replaces the designation of ‘Principal’ as was formerly known of the school’s Head.
The Akwa Ibom state House of Assembly on Tuesday in a plenary session passed the bill for a law to establish the state College of Health Technology into law. The commencement date of the law is February 1988, the date of the establishment of the institution.This is sequel to the submission of a report by the committee of the whole which was chaired by the Hon. Speaker of the house, Rt. Hon. Onofiok Luke during plenary.
While Presenting the report of the committee of the whole before the House, the Speaker, pleaded with the House to accept the recommendations proposed, Hon. Luke noted that the bill will help in expanding in the scope of the school, as new courses will be offered, and that it will enable the school attract funding from donor agencies. He also recalled that the bill was brought before the House on 20th September 2016 by member representing Oruk Anam State Constituency Rt. Hon. Udo Kierian Akpan and relevant stake holders were invited to avail the committee with inputs which helped in strengthening and enriching the contents of the state government owned tertiary health institution.
In his words,“The health sector is a combination of both infrastructure and personnel. You cannot talk about personnel if you don’t talk about a well-established institution to train the health personnel that will man the health facilities that we have in place. May we use this opportunity to appreciate his Excellency the governor for his effort in building new health facilities and in renovating old ones. There is need for qualified health personnel in this sector. This is why the establishment of this school, backed by law, is very essential. We have once again responded to the call of the people. We have justified our people’s assembly appellation, and we have justified the mandate that the people gave to us."
The Institution shall be to provide and offer courses of study, training, research and development of techniques in all branches of health care delivery including public health, nursing, environmental health, community health, radiography, pharmacy technology, dental technology, health information management, hospital/health administration, nutrition/dietetics, biomedical engineering.
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