Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan will be awarded an honorary fellowship of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria at its 31st Annual Convocation ceremony scheduled for Thursday, 19th September 2013 at the college’s premises at Ijanikin, Lagos.
According to President of the college, Professor Victor C. Wakwe who made the revelation on Saturday, the award comes as the medical community has been acknowledging the governor’s pioneering efforts in boosting maternal and child health through a comprehensive coverage that gives free health services for pregnant women and free healthcare for newborns up to the age of five.
“Uduaghan, a medical doctor with a distinguished career, has been executing an ambitious programme of rehabilitating, upgrading and equipping many hospitals in Delta State,” Wakwe said.
“Under the project, the 60-year old Baptist Hospital in Eku was upgraded into a modern health institution with state of the art facilities. Similarly, the Delta State governor also upgraded facilities at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara and is now undertaking knee cap and kidney transplant.
The National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria was set up in 1979 to produce specialists in all branches of medicine and dentistry as well as determine standards and accredit medical institutions in Nigeria for professional postgraduate training.
