American Foundation Donates $1million dollars to Afe Babalola Teaching Hospital

The dream of the founder of Afe Babablola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) to commission the newly completed University Teaching Hospital by March this year has now become a reality as an American philanthropy organization, has donated medical equipment worth $1million to Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti(ABUAD).

The  President and Chief Executive Officer, Project cure, Mr Williams Douglas Jackson, who spoke with journalists  at ABUAD  said he the donation was  to equip the newly constructed Afe Babalola University Teaching hospital(ABUTH)  of the institution.

Jackson, who said he was proud  of the exploits made by the institution in the areas of entrepreneurship and academics, added that medicine has changed all over the world and  that time has come for the country to join the fray for Nigeria to join the league of developed nations.

“Time has come to take the health  of  the people with seriousness and ABUAD is doing well in this  regard. University education is meant to develop the potentials of the citizens, not only in getting better education , but in enterprise and ABUAD, to me  has done exceedingly well .

“I believe the world can change and ABUAD as a change agent can serve as a precursor that will bring a  revolutionary change in the lives of the people, which I believe can start from Nigeria. Public health, particularly the ones that deal with children and women have  attracted the world attention and I want this Teaching hospital to focus attentions in these areas.

“The health of the people is very important because it is only a healthy population that can drive the economy of any nation . As ABUAD,is building the entrepreneurship potentials of the students, they
should also think about of the health of the people in the community where it operates.

“What we are giving  is just an encouragement to show that we all have the opportunity to change the world if we contribute our quota”, he said.

The extreemingly happy ABUAD’s founder, Aare Afe Babalola(SAN), who vowed that he would Commission the hospital by March this year, praised United States of America and its citizens  for their philanthropic  gestures, saying this has been felt all over the world in terms  of  aids and grants benefits to developing countries.

“Dr. Jackson came from the clime where people give freely. When I started this university I did  a launching where many Nigerians promised as much as one million dollar. Many of them did not pay a dime up to now.

“This university is known by NUC as the pride of this nation. We have surpassed our targets in just seven years . We are deliberately changing the education system of this country and we are proud that we bare meeting our vision”,  he said.