Gracia Simeon -Abakaliki
The Vice Chancellor of King David Medical Science University (KDMSU), Prof. Jessy Uneke, has vowed that unauthorised movement would not be tolerated in the school.
The VC disclosed this to journalists at the University in Uburu, Ohaozara local government Area, Ebonyi state while noting that the school madien matriculation will hold December 02.
According to him, the University has engaged different categories of security agencies including mounting of CCTV cameras from the best security company in the country at different points in the institution to ensure the monitoring of movements for adequate security of staff, visitors and students of the University.
The VC also noted that the institution has commenced production of dialyzer and oxygen plants for treatment of patients suffering the deadly ailments.
He also added that National University Commission(NUC) has approved 17 departments for the school with students getting registered . According to him, the programs includes Medicine and Surgery, Pharmacy, Public Health and Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Nursing Science, Medical Laboratory Science, Physiotherapy, Bio medical Engineering, Radiography and Radiation Science, optometry, computer science, Industrial Physic, Industrial chemistry, Dentistry, Biology and biotechnology, microbiology and parasitology.
“We are engaging different categories of security agencies including the Army, Police, DSS and private security outfits. Movements will be highly restricted. And if you don’t have any business here, you will be shown the way out. CCTV cameras from the best company in the country are in place. The CSO monitors what is going on in the University. There’s also situation room.”
“In dialysis, there is a special kind of consumable, we call it dialyzer that are being used and they very expensive because anybody that is on dialysis will need that being used several times over and over again over a long period of time until the person is able to get kidney transplant. So, we are going to be producing it here.
“These dialyzer factory and our dialysis unit where we do the liver and kidney transplantation, they are constructed by a Switzerland company. We were able to get in touch with them and work is going on. The dialysis clinic will be finished between December and January and then the dialyzer plant will be completed around middle next year.
“There’s a teaching hospital inside the University vicinity. Here was designed as a mini-city. To minimize the hazards. We value the students that will be coming here. Our teaching hospital is exceptional. The equipment has all been paid for as some of them are gradually been installed. It comprises of 500 beds, ”, he said.
“Just recently, we have also started building oxygen production plant and the idea of the production plant is to supply oxygen not just to hospitals but even to schools where they use it for practical and other things and then Agricultural establishments where they use oxygen.
“A very special factory which is one of its kind in West Africa is the dialyzer production plant. We have the dialyzer production plant that is being constructed and that dialyzer production plant will be the first in West Africa.
Prof. Uneke however, vowed to stamp out cultism and other social vices before it rears its ugly head in the University Community as according to him, there will stiff penalties for any student who violates the code of conduct stipulated by the University.
“We have put mechanisms in place to check cultism and other social vices within the University. There will be stiff penalties for offenders. There will also be undertaking by parents and students. Once the rules are contravened, the person is out. We will not allow it to start; the person will be taken out”.
Uneke then described the University as an Ivory tower with international standard added that “What we have is a 21-century World-class University, designed to compete with some of the best outside Nigeria. We have an E-Library, working on a 24 hour light and internet connectivity arrangement. What we have done is to assemble the best brains in Nigeria and experts of international standard with Professorial and PhD qualifications for now”.
Recall that KDMSU, the world class university with state-of-the-art facilities, was built by the present administration in the state and handed to Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria(CBCN) to manage
