CHSTK Provost Zinnia says courses are set for accreditation
By Roseline Okafor, Nasarawa.
The Provost of Zinnia College of Health, Science and Technology, Keffi, Nasarawa State, Dr. Sabiu Adamu (FPCPharm), a Consultant Clinical Pharmacist and Fellow of the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists, has stated that the institution has fulfilled all necessary requirements for the commencement of its courses and has begun rendering services, with applications submitted for full accreditation through the relevant regulatory bodies.
He stated this during an interview with our correspondent in his office at the college Thursday.
According to the provost the college which was established just a year ago precisely in March, 2024 with only eleven students has so far more than 100 of them and as well introduced not fewer than six essential health care delivery courses such as pharmacy technician, public health, environmental health, community health, medical health technology, medical laboratory and health information management which the college has since met all the needed requirements for their take off both from local and state levels now waiting for their full accreditation from the federal regulatory agencies.
He said ” I want to also inform you that so far we have applied for the accreditation of all our courses we are now waiting for the respective regulatory bodies to come for inspection, but as for the state we have their approval already and that of the local government as well through their health department”. He said.
On some of the achievements recorded by the health/technology college so far though new, Dr. Sabiu Adamu explained that within the year the college has recorded tremendous successes particularly in the area of collaborating with other sister health institutions such as primary health care centers and general hospitals within and also the federal medical center they have there in Keffi and the rest where they send their students for inductry part of the training after the theoretical aspects they’ve learnt in the class among other numerous achievements.
Speaking equally on the challenges facing the newly established Zinnia college of health science and technology Keffi, the provost explained that ” the first challenge we faced was the fear initially that we started with just eleven students, how do we scale through but with Gods intervention we just matriculated over 100 of our students last week and so we over come that and also as we speak we are continuously admitting new students especially since after our last matriculation and one major challenge we are anticipating of course is the issue of the high charges from those regulatory bodies I mentioned earlier.
We understand that they charge high when they come for the inspection and so I want to use this medium and appeal to the authorities concerned talking about the federal government to please consider new institutions like ours and subsidize those charges to enable us deliver and function credibly as expected”.
