Fibre Optics Centre at UCC to become fully-fledged Institute

President Mahama has announced that the Laser and Fibre Optics Centre at the University of Cape Coast would be transformed into a fully-fledged institute, paving the way for the sub-region to develop the needed man-power in harnessing light and the technologies of light to develop.

President Mahama said this at the start of a three-day conference of the International Year of Light and Light based technologies (IYL)being hosted in Accra.

President Mahama, whose speech was read on his behalf, said Lasers have improved delivery of medical care, provided new imaging, surgical, and therapeutic modalities that better address various health care objectives.

He endorsed the establishment in the country of a sub-regional Laser Medical Application Laboratory to train medical practitioners to make use of relevant laser technologies in the field of urology, ophthalmology, dentistry and general surgery in two of the major hospitals in Ghana.

GNA