The Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile Ife is one of the Federal Teaching Hospitals fully funded by the Federal Government of Nigeria. It was formerly known as the Ife University Teaching Hospitals Complex until its name was changed in 1987 to Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex in honour of one of the greatest statesmen Nigeria has produced, following the death of the sage in 1987.
The Institution was the brain child of the government of the then Western State of Nigeria. In 1967, the Western State Government decided to establish a medical school in its University at Ile-Ife which was then five (5) years old to provide manpower to tackle the health problems of the state. After a period of careful planning, the Faculty of Health Sciences was created in the University of Ife on 8th May, 1972. The teaching hospital that was to serve as a clinical facility to the medical school was established in July 1975. It was taken over by the Federal Government later that year.
IFE PHILOSOPHY
The Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex is unique in character in that it was founded on what is generally referred to as the Ife Philosophy. The philosophy provides for an integrated health care delivery system with emphasis on comprehensive health care services based on a pyramid comprising primary care at the base, and secondary and tertiary services, designed to secure improvement in the physical, mental and socio-economic well being of Nigerians through preventive, promotive, diagnostic, restorative and rehabilitative services. The philosophy allows for a unique experiment in health care delivery and health professional training in Nigeria. Primary Health Care is provided to the community in the health centers – two urban and one rural in its catchment areas of Ife, Ilesa and Imesi-Ile respectively. Secondary care is provided at its satellite centers and tertiary care for complicated disease conditions in specialized facilities in its two hospital units. By its recognition and establishment of Primary Health Care as an integral part of the country’s health system and the first level of contact of individuals, thereby bringing health care as close as possible to the people, the Obafemi Awolowo University Hospitals Teaching Hospitals Complex was ahead of the WHO in its Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 that Primary Health Care is the key to attain health for all. The Ife philosophy has thus made for Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex a multi-campus health care system with six (6) units.
Community Health Officers’ Training Programme
RESIDENCY TRAINING PROGRAM
SCHOOL OF DARKROOM TECHNICIAN
SCHOOL OF HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
SCHOOL OF MEDICAL LABORATRY TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF MIDWIFERY
SCHOOL OF NURSING
SCHOOL OF PERIOPERATIVE NURSING
SCHOOL OF POST BASIC GENERAL NURSING
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