From Saka Bolaji, Minna
AS part of efforts to ensure that staffers of the Federal University of Technology Minna give their best in productivity, the school’s Vice Chancellor Professor Musbau Akanji, on Friday said the university has earmarked N20 million annually for staff medical check-up.
Akanji said the introduction of medical examination for the staff has yielded positive results in the university system as it helped them to be able to carry out their work in a well.
He said the reason for spending N20 million annually on medical treatments among the staff was to enable them give their best in school devoid of health challenges.
According to him, “what we do is that on the day of your birthday, the registrar will send text message congratulating you and at the same time asking you to go for medical test at the school medical centre to ascertain that you are medically fit to perform your duty in the universities.”
The vice chancellor said this would make many “people who do not know their medical history to know it now and begin to take care of it immediately, stressing that ‘health is wealth.’
He added that “actually there is a hidden revelation, we saw people who otherwise are not aware that they have hepatitis, some people were not aware that they were moving towards cancer and some serious medical problem.
“There are instances where the disease is more than the staff in terms of taking care of it, the university has on several times advanced N2 million to N1.5 million to assist the staff to get treated and it has improved the university productivity.”
Akanji also said that they give welfare to staff as incentive and motivation “and invariably they
give their best at work. We always show appreciation to people working with us otherwise we will not achieve much in terms of productivity,” he said.
However, Akanji advised the FUT Minna staff to always utilise the opportunity to take care of their health issues, knowing that without good and sound health there would not be positive production.
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