# Jos University Teaching Hospital

Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) is a Federal Tertiary Health Institution of Nigeria, established in 1975 formally recognized by an Act of parliament in 1981 located in Jos North Plateau State. The Chief Medical Director is Doctor Bupwatda Pokop Wushipba. The Chief Medical Director, recognized staff with meritorious and long-standing awards on December 15 to incentivize JUTH working environment.

## Description
### Locations

There are four locations of JUTH which are as follows:
* JUTH Permanent Site, Lamingo
* Comprehensive Health Centre, Gindiri
* Zamko Comprehensive Health Centre
* Federal Staff Clinic, Tudun Wada

### Departments

JUTH has 43 departments:
* Administration.
* Accounts.
* Anesthesia.
* Catering.
* Chemical Pathology.
* Community Medicine.
* Child and Oral Health.
* Directorate of Clinical Training and Services.
* Dietetic.
* Domestic Services.
* Family Medicine.
* Hematology and Blood Transfusion.
* Health Records.
* Anatomic Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
* Information and Communication Technology.
* Information, Protocol, and Public relations.
* Internal Audit.
* Internal Security Unit.
* Legal.
* Medical Microbiology.
* Medical Social Work.
* Medicine.
* Nursing Services.
* Oral Diagnostics Services.
* Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
* Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
* Ophthalmology.
* Orthopedics and Trauma.
* Otorhinolaryngology(ENT).
* Pediatrics.
* Pharmacy.
* Physiotherapy.
* Planning, Research, and Statistics.
* Procurement.
* Psychiatry.
* Preventive Dentistry.
* Radiology.
* Radiotherapy Oncology.
* Restorative Dentistry.
* Stores and Supplies.
* Surgery.
* Transport.
* Works.

## Facilities and Units
### Accident and Emergency Unit (A&E)

This unit is the engine of the Jos University Teaching Hospital which responds to varying degrees of accidents and emergency patients. The Accident and Emergency Unit has 34 beds. It has a mediboard which displays real-time information of admitted patients, new patients reviewed, and discharged patients.

## History

Jos University Teaching Hospital was established in 1975. It was established during the regime of Gen. Yakubu Gowon but was commissioned in 1977 during the regime of Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo. In 2001, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with JUTH to establish a laboratory to combat HIV. In 2007, Obasanjo commissioned a permanent site for the hospital.

## Education

JUTH's partnership with the College of Health Sciences, University of Jos provides degree programmes to medical students. In this regard, JUTH provides specialized training experience and placement within its departments to medical students of University of Jos College of Health Sciences. Every year, JUTH inducts Doctors, Nurses, Medical Laboratory Scientists, Dentists, and more. There are 5 faculties which are as follows:
* Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences
Departments
* Chemical Pathology
* Hematology and Blood Transfusion
* Medical Microbiology
* Pathology
* Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
* Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences
Departments
* Medical Biochemistry
* Human Anatomy
* Human Physiology
* Faculty of Clinical Sciences
Departments
* Surgery
* Radiology
* Obstetrics and Gynaecology
* Anesthesiology
* Psychiatry
* Paediatrics
* Ophthalmology
* Medicine
* Family Medicine
* ENT, Head, and Neck
* Community Medicine
* Orthopaedics and Trauma
* Faculties of Dental Sciences
Departments
* Oral Pathology
* Child Oral Health
* Restorative Dentistry
* Preventive Dentistry
* Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
* Faculties of Health Sciences and Technology
Departments
* Nursing Sciences
* Medical Laboratory Sciences
* Medical Radiology
* Physiotherapy

## Kefiano Global Foundation

Due to under-equipment of public hospitals common with public health care providers in Nigeria, the founder of Kefiano Global Foundation, Chief Kefas Ropshik renovated and upgraded JUTH's Accident and Emergency Unit (A&E Unit), donating new wheelchairs, stretchers, patient's monitor, defilibrator, concentrators. Chief Kefas paid the medical bills of the incipient patients in the commissioned facility, pledged to pay for basic sanitary items in the Accident and Emergency Unit.

## NLNG Twin Theater suite

As part of its Hospital Support Programme, Nigeria LNG a leading player in Nigeria's Oil and Gas sector intervened in JUTH by constructing a twin theater suite. This facility makes access to critical surgical treatments a reality for patients.