A United Kingdom-based donor agency, the Flaming Fund Foundation, has expressed interest in helping the University of Ilorin to strengthen the capacity of its Veterinary Teaching Hospital in terms of diagnosis and innovation.
Dr. Ayuba Phillip, the leader of the visiting team, who spoke at the Univerity of Ilorin on Monday, said that the Foundation has decided to help the University to upgrade its Veterinary Teaching Hospital to a world-class standard.
Phillip observed that 70 per cent of human diseases are contracted from animals, and that when the capacity of the hospital equipment is strengthened, such dangerous diseases will be detected immediately and prevented from becoming dangerous to the workers and society at large.
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“Our visit is to see how we can help the University of Ilorin Veterinary Teaching Hospital increase its capacity and to make sure we advance its laboratory even in diagnosis, equipment and innovation,” he said.
According to him, the ultimate goal of the intervention is to ensure that the University of Ilorin has a good veterinary laboratory that will compete favourably with its contemporaries across the globe.
“Diagnosis that are made are usually tentative, we want to increase the capacity for definitive diagnosis.
“By the time the capacity of the equipment is strengthened, the results of a research or tests carried out will be instant and accurate and the University and society will benefit a lot from it.
In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, commended the donor agency for showing interest in the University of Ilorin.
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He described their intervention as a thing of joy to the University management.
Abdulkareem expressed confidence that the support will further place the Unilorin Veterinary Teaching Hospital on a global map in terms of innovation and standard diagnosis, as well as aiding quality research that will give birth to sound and qualitative education.
The V-C said that such intervention will also afford the University the opportunity of realising its dream of rendering more effective community services in fulfilment of the third leg of the University’s tripartite mandates. (NAN)