The Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex

The Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex is one of first generation of Teaching Hospitals established by the Federal Government to provide qualitative health care delivery to its people. In 1967, the defunct Western State Government of Nigeria resolved to establish a medical school in its state university at Ile-Ife (which was then five (5 years) old to provide manpower to address health problems in the state. After a period of careful planning, the Faculty of Health Science was created in the then University of Ife on 8 th May, 1972.