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UGMS 1997 year group hands over refurbished hostel to alma mater
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The 1997 year group of the University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS) has renovated and handed over a hostel facility at Danfa in the Greater Accra Region to the school.
The project which cost GH¢182,000 was completed within two months.
It was fitted with 45 durable metal beds with mattresses, 15 sets of tables and chairs, curtains, plumbing and retiling of the washrooms and two sets of ironing boards and irons.
It was in response to the school’s call on alumni to support in the provision of infrastructure to enhance effective teaching, learning and research.
Additionally, the group donated GH¢5,000 worth of medical supplies to the Danfa Clinic.
A member of the year group, Dr Angela El-Adas, said it was important to renovate the hostel to make it more comfortable for students to have the peace of mind to learn.
She mentioned that “along the line, we received some challenges the school was facing and decided as a year group to renovate it to give the students sound mind and a conducive ambience to aid their studies.
She said some of her colleagues have specialised in public and community health owing it to their stay and study at the Danfa Community and Health Centre.
After a tour of some facilities such as hostels and the Basic Sciences building at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Dr El-Adas said there was a need for continuous support for the school, adding that “these facilities at Korle-Bu needed some investment.”
The Acting Dean of UGMS, Prof. Yvonne Dei Adomako, said the year group has demonstrated love to the school that nurtured them by giving the hostel at Danfa a facelift.
She said the facility was used by the school for its district rotation by the level 500 students as part of their community health rotation.
She said the hostel for several years had not seen any facelift, stating that it had deteriorated with the beds and mattresses needing replacement while the washrooms required refurbishment.
Due to the poor state of the hostel, some students, she said finds accommodation elsewhere when they are asked to come for rotation.
“We called on the alumni to help with various projects and this was one of the projects and the 1997 year group decided to take it on,” she said.
She called on other alumni to come together and support the school in order to attract students in and out of the country.
The outgoing president of the year group, Dr Kojo Cobba Essel urged other year groups to emulate the example by responding to the school’s distress call.
By Jemima Esinam Kuatsinu