Uniabuja conducts skill acquisition workshop for its health workers

                              

The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MAHWUN), University of Abuja Teaching Hospital branch organised a three-day skills acquisition and entrepreneurship development for its members. The program started on Wednesday.

While addressing the participants, the branch chairman of the union, Comrade Stephen Oricha, said the programme was organized to enable members’ live better lives, even after retirement.

Comrade Stephen explained that members of the union took it upon themselves to come up with the idea of how its members would engage in small scale business in order to add to their little salaries.

"Besides, what we intend to achieve at the end of this training is to expose our people to various skills such as liquid soap making, poultry/fish farming, detergent, among others, which our members have indicated interest in so that at the end can use their hands to feed themselves,"he said.

He said that at the end of the training, the union would establish a Medical and Health Workers farm.

Also speaking, the Acting Medical Director of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Dr. Haruna Shehu, commended members of the union for coming up with the idea of engaging a consultant to train them on skills acquisition and entrepreneurship.

source:daily trust