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UG Vice Chancellor, Prof. Jacob Opadeyi
“The University alone cannot do everything; the Government alone cannot do everything. So when we see the private sector and NGOs (Non Governmental Organisations) doing something like this that is very beneficial to the country, we have to show a lot of support for it,” declared Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG), Professor Jacob Opadeyi, last Monday.
He was at the time speaking of the work of the Doobay Renal/Medical Centre, situated at 8-9 Courbane Park, Annandale, East Coast Demerara, during a courtesy call there.
According to the Vice Chancellor, the University is in fact very willing to look at the training programme being undertaken at the facility with a view of incorporating them into the programmes offered at UG.
This, Professor Opadeyi said, could see the students at the Doobay Centre being able to use their certificates to enter UG to undertake degree programmes.
Added to this, he spoke of the possibility of sending students of the tertiary institution to complete internship programmes at the Doobay Centre, even as he insisted that “we are in full support of this venture.”
The Doobay Centre, as part of its third anniversary observance September last, opened a medical school offering programmes in four areas: – Nursing Assistant, Pharmacy Assistant, Laboratory Technician Assistant and Phlebotomy. The facility also has a staff of professional nurses who attend to the more than 40 patients who require hemodialysis due to renal failure.
According to the Vice Chancellor, he is closely looking at the system of dialysis and the quality of patient care at the facility, even as he emphasised that “the skill of knowing how to manage patients is very important.”
Moreover, he noted that the University is prepared to collaborate with the Renal Centre to have students utilise the equipment there in order to learn needful medical skills.
Further, the Vice Chancellor assured that the proposed collaboration is not expected to create additional cost to students opting to engage in an internship programme at the Centre.
“Students can spend up to three weeks to learn this and learn that…they come and we agree with that and when they are finished with that they present a report of what they have learnt, and if possible, (we) give them credit for that additional knowledge. This is something we are working on with the private sector,” Professor Opadeyi said.
He pointed out though that students’ reports must be corroborated by the officials of the Renal Centre before they are awarded with credit.
Professor Opadeyi during an interview with this publication earlier this year had disclosed that moves were being made to reach out to the private sector in an attempt to help reduce its expenditure. The Vice Chancellor had previously spoken of the possible increase of tuition fees, but had alluded to the possibility of the private sector furnishing some students with scholarships to evade the potential increase.
A Special Audit conducted within the Bursary had in fact warranted the termination of the contracts of the Chief Accountant and the Bursar, and recommendations were made for measures to be put in place to improve the University’s financial operation.
But, according to Professor Opadeyi, the support of organisations within the private and other sectors cannot be understated. Moreover, he emphasised that since the population is supporting them, they should also endeavour to give back. However, he did assert that the support the University can gain from the private sector, and other organisations could be in varying forms and not merely financial.
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