Igbinedion University, Okada in Edo, has concluded plans to digitise its Medical Laboratory Science in tackling COVID-19 pandemic. Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, the Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of the university, said this on Friday in Okada at the 11th induction and official oath-taking for 58 graduates of the medical laboratory science. Ezemonye noted that technology was key in tackling […]
Igbinedion University, Okada in Edo, has concluded plans to digitise its Medical Laboratory Science in tackling COVID-19 pandemic.
Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, the Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of the university, said this on Friday in Okada at the 11th induction and official oath-taking for 58 graduates of the medical laboratory science.
Ezemonye noted that technology was key in tackling the pandemic in the country.
He added that the university was committed to providing training through the use of digital technology for its medical laboratory scientists.
“This university is one of the few institutions licensed to train medical laboratory scientists.
“ This school has consistently been committed to effective training of sound and qualified practitioners.
“A nation’s healthcare will continue to depend on the medical laboratory services for effective healthcare delivery because both diagnosis and prognosis of disease will remain a mirage in the absence of the later,’’ Ezemonye said.
The guest lecturer at the occasion, Dr Godswill Okara, noted that medical laboratory science had emerged as the search light of healthcare practice.
Okara said that it was expected to lead the way to revitalise and reinvigorate effective and efficient healthcare practice for the benefit of the society.
He said that the profession holds the key to disease management and cure.
Okara, who is the Registrar/Secretary General, West Africa Post Graduate College of Medical Laboratory Science (WAPCMLS), urged the inductees to be meticulous and pay attention to details of the profession.
“The profession demands from its practitioners the highest degree of meticulous disposition and careful attention to details.’’
He said that the COVID-19 pandemic had exposed and reshaped medical laboratory science profession as the key cure in healthcare.
Okara said that the disturbing statistics of COVID-19 related deaths around the world underscored the magnitude of health crisis facing the world.
“The fight against diseases is won or lost in the laboratory,’’ he said.
