NYSC orientation camp in Ondo gets ultra-modern clinic
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has again restated its commitment to the welfare of corps members, including the provision of conducive environment to enable them develop their potentials for national development.
NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, on Thursday, stated this in Ondo State, while commissioning an ultra-modern clinic inside the Orientation Camp in Ikare-Akoko.
He said the clinic was anchored on the need to ensure the well-being of all corps members — a key policy thrust of the Scheme as they are a critical national asset that must be taken care of.
The Director-General, in a statement issued by Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi,
Director, Press and Public Relations, implored the camp participants to effectively utilise the clinic with adequate maintenance of its facilities.
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He also directed that the clinic should provide medical services to the host community.
The construction of the clinic was initiated in 2018 by Corps Doctor Ijirotimi Gbenga OD/18B/0230, a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, but could not be completed due to paucity of funds.
It was later taken over and completed by the NYSC Ondo State Secretariat, with support from good-spirited individuals from lkareland.
The fully equipped clinic comprise consulting room, laboratories, pharmacy, reception, wards among others.
Addressing the corps members, the Director-General charged them to embrace Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) Programme of the Scheme that would make them become job-creators, instead of trudging the streets in search of scarcely available white collar jobs.
He added that many of their predecessors that embraced skill acquisition during their service year benefitted from grants to boost their businesses through the Central Bank of Nigeria, Access Bank, Heritage Bank, Bank of Industry, NYSC Foundation, among others.
