The University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) will introduce programmes in Optometry and Sonography from next year.
The Optometry will be a six-year programme, while the Sonography will take four years to complete.
Specialist programmes
Optometry is a specialised healthcare profession that involves examining the eyes and related structures for defects or abnormalities, to provide comprehensive eye care.
Sonography is a diagnostic medical procedure that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce dynamic visual images of organs, tissues or blood flow inside the body.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Lydia Aziato, disclosed this when a team from Stanbic Bank donated two 85’’ flat-screen television sets, 10 lab-tops, 20 tablets, and a high-quality video screen worth about GH¢300, 000 to the university.
She said the introduction of the new programmes was in line with UHAS’s mandate to provide higher education in the health sciences through teaching and research, aiming to address the health needs and aspirations of the people.
Students accommodation
Prof. Aziato thanked the bank for the donation, saying that access to technology was now a necessity and not a luxury and, therefore, renewed her appeal to the government to help UHAS with good roads on the campus to give it a more fitting outlook.
On accommodation for students, the Vice-Chancellor said the private sector could step in to help in that regard, adding that the university had more than 900 acres on the main campus at Sokode-Lokoe, and more than 300 acres at the Hohoe campus.
Further, she said UHAS needed its own hospital and was ready to work with various health professionals to run it.
Supporting teaching and learning
The Head of Personal Banking, Stanbic Bank, Harry Opoku Agyemang, who presented the items, said they were meant to support teaching and learning at the university.
“We are not only a financial institution, but we are concerned about national development as well,” he said, adding that investments in the health sector were key to the bank.
He described the UHAS campus as a clean and sterling ambience and urged the management to maintain its status as such at all times.
He affirmed the bank’s stance to support UHAS students in various ways to broaden their scope in their academic and career pursuits.
