WorldStage Newsonline-- An American-based organization, Project Cure Foundation has donated medical equipment worth $1 million to Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital (ABUADTH).
The new teaching hospital to serve as the medical training school for Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) is expected to take off in March.
Making the donation at a ceremony on Wednesday, the Foundation's President/Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Williams Douglas Jackson, said the gesture was a motivation to ABUAD to achieve medical excellence and give the best training to its medical students.
Jackson noted that medicine has changed all over the world hence the need for the institution (ABUADTH) to be adept with the latest global trends. He hailed ABUAD for its giant strides in academic, entrepreneurship and enterprise.
He explained that the donation was to assist ABUADTH to serve as a change agent and to ensure a healthy population which is vital to drive the economy of the nation.
Jackson said: “Time has come to take the health of the people with seriousness and ABUAD is doing well in this regard. University education is meant to develop the potentials of the citizens, not only in getting better education, but in enterprise and ABUAD, to me has done exceedingly well .
“I believe the world can change and ABUAD as a change agent can serve as a precursor that will bring a revolutionary change in the lives of the people, which I believe can start from Nigeria.
“Public health, particularly the ones that deal with children and women have attracted the world attention and I want this Teaching hospital to focus attentions in these areas.
“The health of the people is very important because it is only a healthy population that can drive the economy of any nation. As ABUAD is building the entrepreneurship potentials of the students, they should also think about of the health of the people in the community where it operates.
“What we are giving is just an encouragement to show that we all have the opportunity to change the world if we contribute our quota."
ABUAD Founder, Aare Afe Babalola, expressed satisfaction that the new teaching hospital will be inaugurated in few weeks time deploring the attitude of Nigerians in failing to redeem pledges made at donations.
Babalola revealed that many prominent Nigerians who promised to donate various sums of money when he organized a fundraising for the university at its inception had failed to redeem their pledges till date.
He praised United States of America and its citizens for their philanthropic gestures, saying this has been felt all over the world in terms of aids and grants benefits to developing countries.
Babalola said: “Dr. Jackson came from the clime where people give freely. When I started this university I did a launching where many Nigerians promised as much as one million dollar. Many of them did not pay a dime up to now.
“This university is known by NUC as the pride of this nation. We have surpassed our targets in just seven years. We are deliberately changing the education system of this country and we are proud that we are meeting our vision."
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