The Pan-African Urological Surgeons Association’s Initiative for Urological Training in Africa (PIUTA), University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan centre, has commended Mansard Insurance plc for its support to the centre by means of its annual funding of the Postgraduate Training Fellowships in general urology.
Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa, a professor and director of the centre, said Mansard’s support for the centre had been invaluable towards achieving the centre’s accomplishments. Some of the achievements made with Mansard’s support include the overseas training and conference fellowship to Sikiru A. Adebayo of Urology Division, Department of Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, to attend the Bristol Urology Urodynamic Course in the United Kingdom, and the 34th Congress of the Societe Internationale d’Urology held in Glasgow-Scotland in October 2014.
S.A. Adebayo and Ijeoma N. Chibuzo, on behalf of others, presented the patented University of Ibadan/University College Hospital Bladder Manikin® – a locally designed teaching aid for suprapubic catheterisation in low resource countries at the conference in Glasgow. The Manikin was awarded the First Prize for the Best Affordable Technology.
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According to Olapade-Olaopa, through the support of Mansard, PIUTA was able to clear and insure the state-of-the-art endoscopy equipment donated by Karl Storz GMBH (a German company) for advanced urological training fellowships at the University of Ibadan and the University College Hospital.
Also, the centre was able to produce Patient Information Leaflets (PIL) in indigenous Nigerian languages. A survey of patients on the usefulness of the PIL revealed that the leaflets were very useful as they understood the information provided on the diseases and their treatment. Part of the fund from Mansard also provided support for the development of a Yoruba language Human and Veterinary Medical Dictionary.
Olapade-Olaopa opined that the annual funding of the centre by Mansard was a worthy initiative that supported health professionals’ education and healthcare delivery that corporate organisations in Nigeria ought to emulate.
Mansard Insurance plc is a member of the AXA Group, a world leader in insurance and asset management with 157,000 employees serving 102 million clients in 56 countries. Mansard was incorporated in 1989, as a private limited liability company and is registered as a composite company with the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria (NAICOM).
The company was listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in November 2009 and has market capitalisation in excess of N29 billion thereby remaining the biggest insurance company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
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