CMD Seeks Adequate Accommodation For Trainee Nurses

The Chief Medical Director
(CMD), University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Prof. Aaron Ojule has called on concerned authorities to rally round and provide the nursing department with adequate accommodation.
Ojule made the call during the 2016 matriculation ceremony of the Paediatrics and Accident Emergency Nursing Students in Port Harcourt, recently.
Ojule said that as nurses in the making, they deserve the best accommodation which is one of the challenges they are facing in their training.
According to him, condusive environment was also important in the quest for academic excellence.
While noting that training nurses involves some rigorous process, Ojule stressed the need for the provision of a world class accommodation to aid bringing the best out of the students.
The medical professor, noted that the hospital has all it takes to train nurses and other medical personnel in all vocations and called on those desirous of specialisation in nursing programmes to come to UPTH, rather than travel far distances for similar programmes.
Furthermore, he listed power supply as another challenge facing the environment, saying that generating set cannot power the air-conditioning system
On the issue of delay in registering patients, he pointed out that the best practice must be adopted in order to maintain accuracy, since it would be counter-productive to make mistakes in medicine.
The CMD congratulated the past nursing students for their high academic excellence in all their external examinations, urging the in-coming ones to strive to do better.
Earlier in his speech, the chairman of the occasion, Dr I. C. Toby-West, thanked all for their support for the programme and tasked the students on the need for hard work.