The College of Health Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has established an endowment fund to raise about GHC150,000.
The fund aims at addressing the developmental and infrastructural challenges confronting the college as well as easing funding gaps in their programmes.
The College of Health Sciences (CHS) was established in 2005 in line with the restructuring of the University into the collegiate system to allow for greater academic and administrative autonomy.
It has since evolved to its current status comprising seven schools or faculties including KNUST School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, School of Public Health, the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Other faculties are School of Dentistry with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research into Tropical Medicine (KCCR) and German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (GWAC) as the research centers.
However, data available indicates that the College admits the lowest percentage of qualified applicants compared to all other colleges of the university due to the lack of infrastructure and funding constraints.
Chairman for the College of Health Sciences endowment fund, Prof. Daniel Ansong, addressing a press conference underscored the importance of establishing an endowment fund to support the College to train health professionals.
He expressed fret over the few percentage of applicants the College is able to admit due to infrastructural deficit.
“The College has established the endowment fund to be able to raise enough money to be able to provide enough facilities, expand resources for us to be able to take more students in the college and train the health professionals for the next generation”.
“The fund would also support research activities within the College as well as support the needy students who somehow are unable to pay their fees as well as other resources that would help them meet their academic need,” he expounded.
The former Dean of School of Medicine and Dentistry indicated that Ghana is losing a lot of undergraduates and postgraduates to the western countries due to their attractive scholarships, incentives and conducive environment.
This, according to him, has contributed to the country’s grapple with the brain drain of talented and brilliant graduates, hence the need for colleges to establish funds to complement government efforts to expand the universities.
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