By Evans Worlanyo Ameamu
Ho (VR), Nov 3, GNA – The Alumni Association of the University of Health and Allied Science (UHAS) in the Volta Region has donated six brand new HP Laser printers to their alma-mater to help improve the school’s internal academic activities.
The donation, worth about GH₵21,000.00, was also aimed at alleviating the challenges the school faced in printing examination papers and others within the school.
Mr Gabriel Agbanyo, the President of Alumni Association, explained to the Ghana News Agency, that the donations were provided to enhanced academic and administrative work at the various level in the school.
“This is where we were trained, and in our time here, we have identified some few challenges which we have decided to overcome some today, we are praying that the association will do more in the coming years to curb the numerous challenges the school faced,” he said.
Mr Agbanyo further noted that the alumni association had other plans to uplift the status of UHAS by building a new hostel facility for students to mitigate the overcrowding situation in some of the existing hostels.
He said that the core mandate of the alumni association was to translate all that were learned in the school into a meaningful service to mankind and also give back to the university.
“We have been putting things together for more, and we encouraged and hoped that the university would make good use of the equipment and reaffirmed the Alumni’s ongoing supports for the institution since we are partners in development of the university.”
Professor Lydia Aziator, the Vice Chancellor of UHAS, who received the items on behalf of the institution, expressed gratitude to the Association and pledged the items would be used for the purposes for the betterment of the school.
She also commended the Alumni Association for the kind gesture and appealed to individuals, group of companies, philanthropists and other old students’ unions to help solve other pressing challenges of the university.
Some students and tutors who were present during the donation expressed excitement over the supports and appealed for more to from others.
GNA