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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Students celebrates 2014 World Malaria Day

By Mohammed Sani Garba

Environmental Health Technology Students Association [EHTSA], Federal University of Technology, Owerri [FUTO] celebrated 2014 World Malaria Day. The celebration this year started across the university environment to create awareness about the day before addressing students and general public.

In his speech, the president of the association, Comrade Celestine Onah traced the history of the day to the 60th World Health Assembly in March 2007, which replaced ‘Africa Malaria Day’, and focus to provide education and understanding of malaria as a global scourge which needs joint efforts in controlling the diseases.

The Dean, School of Health Technology [SOHT], Prof. I. N. S. Dozie expressed his happiness about the effort of the students in marking the day and call on stakeholders to join hands and reduce the incidences of malaria across the globe, which Africa contribute the highest number of morbidity and mortality globally; pledge his support to the students anytime such will arise, and hope the marking of the day and others be sustained.
The theme of the day is ‘Invest in the future. Defeat malaria’, but the association rephrase and localize it to ‘Invest in the future. Defeat malaria through environmental health approach’.

The association recommends adequate funding on environmental health services across the nation as the solution to malaria prevention, research grants to institutions like FUTO to carry out more research on malaria, and engaging of environmental health practitioners in piloting the affairs of malaria control to get maximum and efficient results among others.

Haruna B. Wakili, a graduating student of environmental health technology had this to say on the day “We commemorate the day like other organizations across the world; I am happy that my association engages fully in marking the day which brought glory to my department, my Dean was very happy and proud of the effort of my association. The message we are sending is that, malaria is an environmental health problems and needs environmental health solutions, simple”.

But Ijeoma Mang 400 level environmental health technology said “The celebration of the day is a success. It really widen my knowledge that malaria control do not lies in drugs, insecticide treated nets only but wholly on environmental health management and control. I am grateful to my association for commemorating the day”.












NAHESTS holds lecture

By Mohammed Sani


The National Association of Health Science and Technology Students [NAHESTS], Federal University of Technology, Owerri present Campus Student’s Movement in collaboration with Medical Women Association of Nigeria, Imo state chapter held a one day seminar on topical health issues.

Declaring the event open, the Dean, School of Health Technology, Prof. I. N. S. Dozie who was represented, welcome the speakers by coming to impart knowledge on wide range health issues; he called on the participants to practice what they would listen; and expressed his happiness by associating with these organizations that organizes the events.

In her paper on ‘cervical cancer’, Dr. Egwim Adana describes cervical cancer as a disease affecting women and the risk factors include being female, repeated sexual intercourse, multiple sexual partners, smoking, etc. and call on every woman to be going for screening periodically to avoid it in future, as it has no cure but can be prevented by vaccination, hence call for public awareness, regular screening, vaccination.

Dr. E. O. Ofundu in her paper titled ‘Healthy Skin’ describes skin as the largest organ of the body, as a mirror of the internal/body and a reflection of psychological, emotional, physical and mental trauma to the body. She looks at skin as either normal, dry, oily and combination of these three, which needs different approach in making it healthy.

To maintain a healthy skin, she call on participants to eat well balance diet, cleanse all make up before sleep, exfoliate regularly and avoidance of drugs that cause skin sensitivity.

Dr. Uche Onyekwere, a representative of Sebamed-makers of medical care products, delivered her paper on ‘Acne and Skin’ and look at acne as a “skin condition that occurs when the hair follicles over produce cells and becomes plugged with oil and dead skin cells. As a result, it swells and forms a white head which can be seen as a black head at the surface of skin”. He describes medical skin care products as products uses as a skin care routine that is suited to the particular characteristic of your skin, it strengthen its protective mechanisms and help it cope with stress and environmental influences, while cosmetic skin products are not, they are even dangerous to the natural skin.

The commissioner of Health Imo state, Dr. Edward O. Ihejirika, represented by Dr. Iyanya P. C. expressed his happiness by associating Imo state to the event in bringing issue of cervical cancer, skin care to the public domain to raise their awareness on how to take care of their health, which is also part of the state ministry of health mandate. He stated that Imo state government has completed plan to establish a diagnostic centre for cervical cancer menace.

The Campus Student’s Movement represented by Owums Henry C. tells participants that the organization “is a non-political movement that is centered at a better health care delivery amongst the youth, the civic responsibilities as youth, their social responsibilities to mention a few”.
He thanks the university management for hosting the programme.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

2014 World Malaria Day in Federal University of Technology Owerri

The Department of Public Health Technology and Institute of Environmental Health technology [IEHT], Federal University of Technology, Owerri [FUTO], in conjunction with Centre for Women, Gender and Development Studies [CWGDS], Office of the Vice Chancellor will celebrates World Malaria Day on 25th April, 2014.
The theme of this year is ‘Invest in the future. Defeat malaria’
The day will feature
• Lectures
• Procession
* Malaria Screening


Announcer, Prof A. N. Amadi, Head of Department, Public Health Technology and Coordinator, Institute of Environmental Health Technology, FUTO.