Adamawa Justify Closing Down 38 Illegal Colleges Of Health Technology

Adamawa justify closing down 38 illegal colleges of health technology.

From Umar Dankano,Yola.

The Adamawa state government has justified it’s decision in sealing off all 38 private colleges of health technology in the state accusing them of destroying human lives through sharp practices and illegal operations.

Commissioner of health, Mr. Felix Tangwami affirmed the development in an interview with the media in Yola insisting that all those colleges affected by the closure lacks the foundamental professional requirements to establish such learning centres.

Tangwami explained that the government had officially written to the colleges to halt operations until after screening,scrutinization and clearance but failed says all failed to hide the directive lamenting that the owners just felt like opening a business.

It could be recalled that, the Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri’s administration through a taskforce headed by the permanent secretary in the state ministry of health clamped down on all the health colleges situated in the metropolitan local government areas before moving to Northern zone of the state.

Tangwami added that investigation so far has revealed that almost if not all the closed colleges were operating without proper infrastructures and equipments such as demosteration, laboratory, library,class rooms as well as equipment facilities talk more of backing documents or licence to operate as professional outfit.

As a matter of fact,some of these acclaimed colleges were chased out from other states then they found their way to Adamawa thinking of having a field day.

“We wrote them  severally to go forward for routine scrutinization but they refused and as a government we can’t allow them operate as trading business premises rather than training centres for public health delivery.

On those students who have graduated from these institutions and already using their certificates, the commissioner said the operators of such colleges have cheated them fraudulently because no where can seek or require their services knowing that they are half baked fellows or even quacks in the health profession.

However, in their separate relations on the matter,a final year student of one the closed institutions, Abdulrahman Adamu Aliyu and one among the owners of such institutions,Adamu Ayuba Alhaji noted that the decision by government to ensure sanity and efficiency is a good step taken towards a  right direction.

They opined that closing the colleges will have a negative impact on the stakeholders and the communities because healthcare delivery services will be negatively affected calling on government to look in to the matter by lifting the ban.

In it’s effort to ensure effective and efficient health care delivery,the Adamawa state government has sealed off eight (8) health institutions operating illegally in the state.

Leading a taskforce committee for the exercise in Yola Thursday, the Director Public Health of the state of Health,Dr. Isaac Kadala expressed commitment of the government to ensure laid down rules and regulations are effectively followed in that regard.

The clamp down exercise which started with the metropolitan local government areas shutting down two (2) Colleges of Health in Yola South and six (6) in Yola North local councils respectively.

Institutions affected by the exercise include ; Fat-Hur-Rahman College of Health Sciences and Technology, Wuro Hausa Yola, College of Health Technology, Almashkur International Academy Yola and School of Health Technology Kazaure, Dougirei Jimeta Yola.

Savannah Model Collage of Health Sciences and Technology, Number fifteen Freetown Avenue Behind AA Law an Jimeta Yola

Others were;Jimeta Central College of Health Science and Technology, FOMWAN, NEPA Road, Jimeta, Yola, School of Health Technology, Number one hundred and thirty eight, Jambutu Street, Wuro Kuturu Jimeta Yola, Nafan College of Health Science and Technology, Jambutu Jimeta Yola and Bell Dome College of Health Sciences and Technology, Nyako quarters, Jimeta .