OAUTHC designs medical equipment

Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife has designed seven local medical equipment which will boost effective delivery of medical services in the country.


The Chairman of the Management Board of OAUTHC, Professor Ebenezer Oluwole Akande who disclosed this at a press conference in Ile-Ife on Tuesday said that the equipment were designed by the Biomedical Engineering department of the hospital.

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The equipment, he said, included an angle poise lamp, a laboratory incubator, a centrifuge, a baby incubator, a suction machine, an orbital blood rocker and an electrophoresis machine.


Akande, who said that the equipment which were fabricated with available local materials took cognisance of major challenges posed by power and water which had become endemic in the environment.


Commending the Biomedical Engineering department for the feat, Professor Akande said the board was impressed with the invention, innovation and practical demonstration of selfless service that has led to the production of this equipment.


In his speech, the Head of department, Mr. Samuel Akomolafe, explained that the department embarked on fabrication of the medical equipment as a result of the challenge posed by constant breakdown of imported equipment due to irregular power supply.


He also said that the equipment would reduce over-dependence on foreign medical products, adding that they were easy to operate and repair.


Mr. Akomolafe said that the fabrication of equipment would reduce unemployment and promote indigenous technology in the country.