Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro has assured the administration of the Bayelsa Medical College (BMU), Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, of the programme’s readiness for collaboration to treatment the scarcity of medical professionals within the Niger Delta.
An announcement issued by his particular assistant on media, Igoniko Oduma, quoted the PAP administrator as having famous that the Niger Delta was confronted with two main challenges particularly, restricted infrastructure and human capital growth.
He noticed that there was a spot in medical personnel within the area, stressing that one of many main aims of the programme is human capital growth within the area.
Otuaro, who gave the reassurance when he led PAP administration crew on a go to to the BMU, acknowledged that the Amnesty Programme Workplace and the BMU might strengthen their partnership to coach extra college students in crucial areas within the well being sector.
He and his crew had earlier visited Igbenedion College and Benson Idahosa College in Edo State; the Western Delta College, Oghara; the Edwin Clark College, Kiagbodo; and the Michael and Cecelia Ibru College, Ughelli, all in Delta, as part of his tour of tertiary instructional establishments partnering with the PAP.
Throughout the visits, Otuaro interacted with the PAP scholarship college students and the administration of the establishments with a view to getting first-hand data in direction of enhancing service supply.
The Amnesty Programme, which was established in 2009 to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate ex-agitators into the mainstream of society and increase instructional alternatives for indigenes of impacted communities, is at the moment within the reintegration section.
He applauded the BMU for being a hit story of the PAP scholarship scheme, and enjoying the position for which it was established by the Bayelsa State Authorities.