The Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Folashade Ogunsola, says challenges facing the country are surmountable, if the youth are given more support in the technology space.
Ogunsola made the assertion at the 2023 STAC Reform conference organised by the KB Club of the institution’s College of Medicine on Thursday, in Lagos, with the theme: Transforming Healthcare through Financial Technology.
The club is a medical socio philanthropic organisation of medical students of the university founded in 1969 by a group headed by Prof. Oladapo Ashiru, one of the club’s grand patrons.
The club operates on a tripod of philanthropy, academic excellence and social empowerment.
According to the vice chancellor, today’s youth are more technology savvy and own the future, and there can be no future without the youth.
She said that such spirit was needed in the search for solutions to the numerous challenges facing the various sectors of the country’s economy.
Ogunsola noted that the healthcare and the education sectors were two key sectors that could open the door to development, adding that finding solutions to their accessibility, using technology, was critical and involved bright and active youths.
The don stated that members of the KB club had always come up with topical issues that would impact the society each time they organised their event.
She commended them on ways they went about it, in ensuring that they yielded the much desired results.
“Today’s event is all about entrepreneurship and impacting the society. It is also a STACK reform, that started about five years ago.
“This particular one is about using financial technology to transform healthcare. It has to do with series of events such as speech competition by secondary schools, elevated pitching by university students and essay competition about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and transforming healthcare.therming healthcare.the sidelines of the event that the STACK campaign was all about enlightenment.
Okunsanya who is also a final year student of the college, said that the essence of the conference was to see how advancement in financial technology could revolutionise healthcare delivery and practice in the country and the world at large.
He said that healthcare professionals, students and stakeholders in the fintech space were among those participating at the conference.
“It is a conference for students, entrepreneurs, growth professionals and policy makers to examine the latest trends and tactics in driving healthcare growth in Nigeria.
“The whole essence is to come together and discuss, exchange ideas on how advancement in fintech could revolutionise the healthcare sector,” he said
