MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: GIVE BACK
Professor Adebola Ogunbiyi, the Acting Dean of the Medical College at the University of Ibadan, organised a Zoom meeting on August 1, 2022, for all former students who have become doctors via the college.
The purpose of the meeting was clear.
Professor Adebola Ogunbiyi, the Acting Dean of the Medical College at the University of Ibadan, organised a Zoom meeting on August 1, 2022, for all former students who have become doctors via the college.
The purpose of the meeting was clear.
Professor Ogunbiyi was deeply concerned about the deteriorating infrastructure at the medical college under her supervision in Ibadan. Recognising the financial constraints of the Nigerian government, she devised a brilliant plan: to leverage the resources and...
...social capital of the college's alumni, now scattered worldwide, to rejuvenate the medical college. Professor Ogunbiyi outlined the challenges faced by the current medical students, emphasising the urgent need for a new hostel and refurbishment of their classrooms.
She earnestly appealled to the college's alumni for support in revitalising and restoring the medical college to its former glory.
Professor Ogunbiyi's plea triggered a wave of donations from medical doctors who had graduated from the Medical College, University of Ibadan.
Professor Ogunbiyi's plea triggered a wave of donations from medical doctors who had graduated from the Medical College, University of Ibadan.
The contributions began to trickle in — ₦1 million here, ₦200,000 there.
Then came the turn of Dr Philip O. Ozuah (pictured), an alumnus of the college and the current President and CEO of Montefiore Medicine in New York.
Then came the turn of Dr Philip O. Ozuah (pictured), an alumnus of the college and the current President and CEO of Montefiore Medicine in New York.
Without many words, Dr. Ozuah made a substantial donation of $1,000,000 (₦700 million).
Expressing that Ibadan's medical college played a pivotal role in shaping and refining him into the person he is today, Dr Ozuah felt a duty to give back to the school.
Expressing that Ibadan's medical college played a pivotal role in shaping and refining him into the person he is today, Dr Ozuah felt a duty to give back to the school.
The announcement of Dr. Philip Ozuah's $1,000,000 donation left all the former students in the Zoom session in awe, shouting, "Wow!" The dean, who had convened the Zoom meeting, was rendered speechless, having not anticipated such generosity.
None of the other former students of the medical college could match Ozuah's donation, and the Zoom fundraising meeting concluded with the closing prayer immediately after the awe-inspiring announcement.
It's worth noting that Dr Ozuah earned his medical degree from the University of Ibadan, completed his internship at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, had his MSc in California, and obtained his PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States.
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