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UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICES

Vision, Mission, Values and Objectives

Vision

Making our Services to be at a high standard where not only students, and staff, even the Principal Officers of the University would like to go personally and happily for their health needs. And also to achieve and maintain a high standard of environmental sanitation and sustainability that should be exemplary to our future leaders trained in the University which would help them in promoting similar standards elsewhere, even in the villages and towns where they will later work.

Mission

Excellence In University Health Services
Provision of a responsive high quality and highly accessible, efficient and community based, comprehensive medical and health services that is adequate, feasible, available affordable and acceptable to all. This will also be anchored on:

Evident based medicine and strong referral services
Effective health education and good mental health services
HIV/AIDS and drug abuse prevention and mitigation.
Promotion of positive health practices, safe motherhood initiative ,reproductive health and immunization services, and
youth friendly services
Well equipped laboratory,
Work place/ laboratory safety and accident prevention
Food and water hygiene,
Environmental sanitation, beautification and protection.

These are necessary to meet the 21st century challenges of emerging diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, and re-surgence of old diseases like Tuberculosis, malaria due to severe poverty and other factors.

Values

UHS sees health care as an expression of concern for fellow human beings through a multitude of services rendered to individuals, families or communities by the agents of the health services or professions, for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, monitoring or restoring health.
UHS will:

Work within the norms and the ethics of medical profession
Have comprehensive and qualitative health care services
Hold highly environmental hygiene and sanitation
Provide highest quality preventive health and Strong community health services.
Promote health education, proper nutrition, recreation, and stress free environment.
Promote Learning and research
Anchor on Multi disciplinary approach on issues and problems
Promote equity and use of appropriate technology, service integration and sharing of ideas
We are committed to ensure the highest possible level of health to all members of the community

Objectives

To provide comprehensive community health services which will include judicious sitting of health clinics, health centers and if necessary, hospitals on the campus.
To provide a comprehensive environmental health services on housing, town planning, water supply, refuse and sewage disposal, drainage, food hygiene, prevention against soil, water and air pollution, and provision for the prevention of all forms of accidents, including those occurring in laboratories and at sports and recreation activities. (The health services must ensure that things are done according to World Health Organization standards.)
To provide ample social welfare and social development services
To advise on adequate nutrition both for students, and more especially, the junior staff members and their families. To offer health education to all, including all senior and junior staff, and especially pregnant women and the under-five children of the junior staff.
To provide a student health counselling service directed mainly towards preventing diseases to which University students are particularly liable such as mental and nervous breakdown, and sexually transmitted diseases and to encourage all students to study hard, play well and relax fully at all times.
To provide advice, immunization, and the necessary health examinations for all travellers, especially for the numerous overseas travels of University senior officials, academic staff, overseas consultants and external examiners.
To provide monthly bills for health to University Board of Health
To co-ordinate and integrate their own health services with those of their neighbouring government and private health related agencies, in the further promotion of a comprehensive health services for the entire university community. This is necessary because many students and staff who are not offered intramural accommodation often reside in rented houses near and around the University. For instance, in our University with a student population of 36000 and 14000 bed’s spaces means 60% lives off-campus. There are 1800 staff houses for the 6500 workers, more than 70% are living off-campus.