UCTH Librarian Lauds CMD Ikpeme For Providing Standard Hybrid Library, Says It Provides Access To 70m E-books

UCTH Librarian Lauds CMD Ikpeme For Providing Standard Hybrid Library, Says It Provides Access To 70m E-books

By Uket Oka, Calabar

The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Prof. Ikpeme Asanye Ikpeme, has been commended for establishing a modern medical Library in the hospital.

The Hospital Librarian, Dr. Kekayo Ayande, made the commendation on Friday, while conducting journalists round the library during a tour of facilities provided by the Chief Medical Director at the hospital in Calabar, Cross River capital.

Ayande explained, that before the emergence of Prof. Ikpeme as the Chief Medical Director, the hospital had no standard medical library.

“UCTH did not have a standard medical library until the CMD came on board to provide the hybrid library for both electronic and manual research,” she stated.

The hospital librarian further stated that the electronic medical library provide access to 70 million electronic books in all areas of medicine.

Ayande also noted that the reading section of the library can accommodate 60 students at a time, adding that the library is opened for the medical staff of the hospital as well as medical students and researchers from outside the hospital.

She hinted that the Chief Medical Director pay for the subscription of the electronic books used in the medical library.

Highlight of the facility tour which took the journalists led by the State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Archibong Bassey, to remodeled Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Department of Radiography and the Family Medicine Clinic, Prof Hannah Bassey Faal Opthalmology Clinic, was the commissioning of the remodeled Dr. Obal Adiaha Out Female Medical Ward and the Prof. Emmanuel Nwafor Uzoma Ezedinachi Male Medical Ward of Internal Medicine of the hospital.