College of Health and Well-Being Kintampo Matriculates 906 Students

College of Health and Well-Being Kintampo

A total of 906 fresh health students, comprising 493 male and 412 female, were matriculated into the College of Health and Well-Being in Kintampo last week-end.

The number of intake this year has been the largest in the annals of the school's history with Community Mental Health also recording the highest intake of 121 while Community Medicine and Clinical Psychiatry attracting the lowest intake of 5.

Welcoming students, Dr E.T. Ajase, Rector of the College, outlined plans to set up satellite campuses across the country to allow the school admit and train a lot of people close to their own communities. He, therefore, called on local authorities to expand existing infrastructure to make this vision a reality.

He pleaded with government to release more resources to enable the school protect its land from further encroachment.

Dr Ajase also advised landlords and landladies who are in the habit of exploiting students by demanding exorbitant rental fees, to desist from the act.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Kintampo Municipal Assembly, Mr Micheal Justice Baffoe, who addressed the occasion as the guest speaker, admitted that the way forward to achieve increased value-based development in education required the proactive involvement of the assembly and all other stakeholders in increasing their budgets to implement projects to match up to the dynamics of contemporary educational requirements.

Mr Baffoe underscored the importance of developing the educational sector to reduce poverty, adding that, developing the human resource base of the country was significant to the ruling NDC government because "quality human resource is very crucial to the development of all sectors of the nation"

The MCE admonished the matriculants and the continuing students to develop themselves so they could be more marketable in future and contribute their quota to the development of the nation.

The occasion also came handy to outdoor a trophy the college recently picked up at the International Star Leadership in Quality, Paris- The Gold Category of Business Initiative Direction (B.I.D).