{"id":11184,"date":"2025-05-29T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=11184"},"modified":"2025-05-29T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:50:15","slug":"government-to-rename-uhas-after-late-prof-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=11184","title":{"rendered":"Government to rename UHAS after late Prof Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government has officially announced plans to rename the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho as the Professor John Evans Atta Mills University of Health and Allied Sciences.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, by Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu during the inauguration of the university\u2019s new Governing Council at the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n

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The renaming cements the institution\u2019s identity with the late President, whose vision and unwavering commitment to healthcare and education were pivotal to UHAS\u2019 establishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not merely a name change,\u201d Haruna Iddrisu stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a reaffirmation of our nation\u2019s gratitude to a man who gave his all to education and health. Prof. Mills believed in human development as the bedrock of our progress, and UHAS was one of his most enduring dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

The late President John Evans Atta Mills, who passed away in office in 2012, is widely remembered not only for his humility and integrity but also for his profound belief in accessible, high-quality education and healthcare.<\/p>\n

It was under his leadership that the idea of UHAS was conceived and brought to life in 2011, to produce a new generation of highly skilled health professionals.<\/p>\n

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Today, what began as a fledgling institution has grown into one of Ghana\u2019s premier universities, delivering world-class training in medicine, nursing, public health, and allied sciences.<\/p>\n

With this renaming, his name will now forever be associated with the institution that carries forward his vision of national transformation through education.<\/p>\n

The Chair of the newly constituted Governing Council, Professor Kodzo Gavua, hailed the move as \u201cdeeply symbolic and appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not only an honour for the late President Mills, but also a challenge to all of us\u2014faculty, staff, and students\u2014to uphold the values he stood for: discipline, service, scholarship, and patriotism,\u201d Prof. Gavua remarked.<\/p>\n

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He pledged that under the new council, the Professor J.E.A. Mills University of Health and Allied Sciences would deepen its commitment to academic excellence, research innovation, and the production of healthcare professionals who are ready to serve both Ghana and the global community.<\/p>\n

The announcement has sparked nationwide applause across political, academic, and civic circles.<\/p>\n

Many have described it as a long-overdue recognition of a man whose legacy continues to shape Ghana\u2019s development agenda.<\/p>\n

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The renaming also comes at a time when the country is re-evaluating how it commemorates its leaders, not just with statues and holidays, but with institutions that reflect their values and contributions.<\/p>\n

For students and alumni of the university, the name change adds emotional and historical weight to their credentials.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel proud,\u201d said a final-year public health student. \u201cNow, when I say where I schooled, I\u2019m not just referencing a place. I\u2019m referencing a legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The government has officially announced plans to rename the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho as the Professor John Evans Atta Mills University of Health and Allied Sciences. The announcement was made on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, by Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu during the inauguration of the university\u2019s new Governing Council at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":11186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,41],"tags":[3588,3587],"class_list":["post-11184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general-news","tag-professor-john-evans-atta-mills-university-of-health-and-allied-sciences","tag-uhas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11190,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions\/11190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}