The health scheme of the Institution that is now the University Health services started as a mere Sickbay grew to a basic health care facility in 1952 under the then Nigerian College of Arts and Science that later transformed into Ahmadu Bello University in 1962.
Along with the growth of the population, it has become a full-fledged University Health Services Unit with a curative wing at the status of secondary Health Care Unit. Health care services are being rendered to the community through the Clinics and health offices located on the various campuses.
On the main campus, the present location of the sickbay covers a total of over 2,600 sq meters and was occupied in 1968. Before this date, the ‘sickbay’ had been located in various areas at various times, from Nagwamatse crescent in residential Area A. to Block F Sulaiman/Cappa housing unit, then to the former Community Medicine Department and finally to the present site. Apparently, the expansion of University Health Services and the introduction of special Clinics have increased the number of patients seen in these clinics every day.
Provision of a responsive high quality and accessible, efficient and community based, comprehensive, feasible, available, affordable, and acceptable medical and health services to all.
These would be anchored on:
Excellence in University Health Services -Making our services to be at a high standard where not only students and staff even the principal officers of the University would like to go personally and happily for their health needs. And to achieve and maintain a high standard of environmental sanitation and sustainability that should be exemplary to our future leaders trained in the University which should help them in promoting similar standard anywhere they may work later in life.
The health scheme of the Institution that is now the University Health services started as a mere Sickbay grew to a basic health care facility in 1952 under the then Nigerian College of Arts and Science that later transformed into Ahmadu Bello University in 1962.
Along with the growth of the population, it has become a full-fledged University Health Services Unit with a curative wing at the status of secondary Health Care Unit. Health care services are being rendered to the community through the Clinics and health offices located on the various campuses.
On the main campus, the present location of the sickbay covers a total of over 2,600 sq meters and was occupied in 1968. Before this date, the ‘sickbay’ had been located in various areas at various times, from Nagwamatse crescent in residential Area A. to Block F Sulaiman/Cappa housing unit, then to the former Community Medicine Department and finally to the present site. Apparently, the expansion of University Health Services and the introduction of special Clinics have increased the number of patients seen in these clinics every day.
University Health Services sees health care as an expression of concern for fellow human beings through best medical services rendered to individuals, families, or communities, for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, monitoring, or restoring health.
UHS will therefore: