UHAS to introduce degree programmes in optometry, sonography

From next week, The University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) will initiate schemes in Optometry and Sonography. The Optometry will be a six-year scheme, while the Sonography will occupy four years to finish.

Optometry is a unique healthcare profession that demands inspection of the eyes thoroughly to determine their nature or condition and associated structures for faults or deformities, to give full-service eye care.
Sonography is a characteristic medical measure that employs ultrasounds to bring about healthy and strong illustrations of organs, tissues or blood flow within the body.

Prof. Lydia Aziato, The Vice-Chancellor, stated this when a group from Stanbic Bank contibuted two10 lab-tops, a high-quality video screen costing about 300,000 Ghana Cedis, 85’’  flat-screen television sets, and a 20 tablets, to the institution.
She stated that, the initiation of the recent schemes was in accordance with UHAS’s directives to give top-level education in the health sciences through teaching and experimentation, purposely to attend to the medical nessessities and dreams of the people.

Prof. Aziato showed his gratitude to the bank for the contribution, voicing out that means of approach to technology was now a requirement and not a deluxe and, for that reason, confirmed her request urgently to the government to support UHAS with proper roads on the territory to make it look good and appealing.

The Vice-Chancellor stated that, concerning the housing for students, the private sector can intervene to support in that view, stating further that the institution had maximum 900 acres on the main territory at Sokode-Lokoe, and maximum 300 acres at the Hohoe territory.

Again, she stated that, UHAS required its personal hospital and prepared to operate with other medical experts to manage it. Harry Opoku Agyemang, The Head of Personal Banking, Stanbic Bank, who gave out the items, stated that, they were intended to help teaching and learning at the institution.

He said, we are not just a bank, but we are worried about the development of the country as well. Again saying that, fundings in the medical aspect were crucial to the financial institution.

He painted the UHAS territory as a neat and excellent environment and atmosphere and requested the administration to sustain its rank as such always. He confirmed the financial institution’s ideas and thoughts to help UHAS students in other processes and techniques to extend their range and concepts in their academic and career activities.