page_title: University of Benin Teaching Hospital
hierarchical_section_title: University of Benin Teaching Hospital
caption_attribution_description: English: An Aerial View of the Hospital's Entrance, October 2018
context_page_description: University of Benin Teaching Hospital is a premier and multi-specialty healthcare service provider in West Africa. The Hospital is located in Ugbowo, Benin City and got established on May 12, 1973 following the enactment of an edict of the Nigeria National Health Act.
  As the sixth of the 1st generation Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria, its establishment was also to complement her sister institution, University of Benin, and to provide secondary and tertiary care to the then Mid-western Region and its environs. It also provides necessary facilities for training of high and middle-level workforce for the health industry and spearheads research opportunities for lecturers in the University and other interested persons with economic morbidity burden as research question.
  Through the Community Health Centres in Ogbona and Udo, and the General Practice Clinic that came on stream later, UBTH equally provides some avenues for primary health care to the immediate communities.
context_section_description: University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) is a premier and multi-specialty healthcare service provider in West Africa. The Hospital is located in Ugbowo, Benin City and got established on May 12, 1973 following the enactment of an edict (number 12) of the Nigeria National Health Act.
  As the sixth of the 1st generation Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria, its establishment was also to complement her sister institution, University of Benin, and to provide secondary and tertiary care to the then Mid-western Region (now Edo and Delta State) and its environs. It also provides necessary facilities for training of high and middle-level workforce for the health industry and spearheads research opportunities for lecturers in the University and other interested persons with economic morbidity burden as research question(s).
  Through the Community Health Centres in Ogbona and Udo, and the General Practice Clinic that came on stream later, UBTH equally provides some avenues for primary health care to the immediate communities.
caption: Aerial view of the entrance to the hospital's administrative building
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