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By Brown Chimezie
It is literally a harvest of achievements and impressive developments at the Imo State School of Health and Management Sciences under the leadership of Pharm. Elthebert Okechukwu Obiasogu; the Provost in the history of the institution.
Obiasogu, who assumed office July 15, 2019, met dilapidated classrooms, uninspired students, leaking roofs, a school management with no sense of duty in stewardship, probity and accountability as no proper official documents were handed over to him as the new helmsman.
The new provost, who was determined to change the age long narrative at the institution started with a new approach in learning by motivating the lecturers to adopt a contemporary teaching method, which is the current approach and technique used in the classroom to facilitate learning.
Under his watch, there was a shift away from traditional methods, such as lectures and note memorization, towards more student-centered, interactive approaches.
To facilitate this new method of learning, which is technology based, Obiasogu built and furnished an ICT centre with over 700 computers and e-library with over 300 computers.
The ICT literacy among students of the institutions the provost enhances their research work as they acquire the necessary information and develop the ability to think for themselves.
To enhance seamless operations of day to day running of the school, Obiasogu acquired a 150kv generating set to ensure uninterrupted power supply during school activities; mounted a security gate, tarred all the classrooms, staff rooms, ICT centre, e-learning library, among other developmental stride.
Judging from the remarkable records of the provost, his unrelenting commitment in setting a standard and meeting up the accreditation requirements for the following courses; Community Health, Public Health, Environmental Health, Nutrition & Dietetics and Health Information Management, and for an award of Higher National Diploma (HND) to the school received the delegation of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) recently.
The team was led by Sama’ila Tanko, Director, Monotechnics Department, Murtala Aliyu Sakwa (Head, Health Technology) and other members of the board. The report of the exercise would be forwarded to the management of the institution.
