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Cover -- Dedication -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 ORIGINS AND CHILDHOOD IN ABONNEMA IN THE NIGER DELTA Many were strikingly ahead of their time -- The Kalabaris and their social history -- My birth and my given names -- What Abonnema was like in my primary school days -- Preschool days -- Life at Owusara House and my primary school days -- Work at the primary school -- Recreational activities at the primary school -- My teachers at the primary school -- My contemporaries at primary school -- Preparations for my secondary school education -- My personal impressions of Kalabari traditions -- Tales of my heritage -- Chapter 2 GROWING UP IN GOVERNMENT COLLEGE, UMUAHIA, 1946- 1951 -- Summary of personal achievements -- Living conditions -- The influential teachers -- On discipline -- On Music -- Further extracurricular activities -- Academic achievements -- One problem that would not go away -- What I did with myself outside the college -- The dying days -- End piece -- Chapter 3 UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, IBADAN 1951- 1955 Small buildings, humble surroundings, few people, but with tremendous influence for good -- Very early days in UCI -- More observations on students and their backgrounds -- The premedical years -- Financial difficulties -- College Scholarship -- Preclinical years: permanent site -- Public events and ceremonies -- Pre-clinical years: academic work -- My final year: academic work and the second MB examination -- My final year: extracurricular activities at Ibadan -- Holidays, a dangerous journey, and the vagaries of road transport in the 1950s -- Friendships and those I admired -- Preparations for departure to UK for clinical studies -- Final departure for UK -- Final thoughts.
Chapter 4 UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENT IN LONDON, 1955- 1959 Fulfilment of hopes and expectations -- Orientation -- University College Hospital, London, and Medical School -- Extracurricular activities in UCHL -- Undergraduate clinical training -- Self appraisal at the end of my first year and plans for the future -- The degree examinations -- The MB BS Examination results -- Friendships -- Keeping up with correspondence -- House jobs and a memorable holiday in Germany -- End piece -- Chapter 5 TRAINING IN IBADAN AND LONDON FOR FUTURE RESPONSIBILITIES, 1960- 1964 It was a whale of a time -- Some preliminary observations and impressions -- Working conditions and experience at UCH Ibadan -- Living conditions in UCH, Ibadan -- Work again at UCH London -- On studying for the MRCOG -- The MRCOG examination -- Life as a postgraduate in London -- Chapter 6 A YOUTHFUL ACADEMIC IN IBADAN, 1964- 1972 Crushing disappointments, fierce determination to succeed: pioneers must always be prepared to struggle was the lesson learnt -- Living conditions -- The department of obstetrics and gynaecology in Ibadan -- Research into blood volume and blood transfusion in severe anaemia in pregnancy -- Abadina Domiciliary Maternity Centre -- Abnormal haemoglobins and pregnancy -- Diseases of the trophoblast -- Nurses and Midwives lectures -- Other researchers -- Study leave -- Last rites in Ibadan -- Why did I leave Ibadan? -- End piece -- Chapter 7 NIGERIAN POLITICS, CIVIL WAR, AND CRISES UPON CRISES IN IBADAN AND ABONNEMA, 1960- 1971 The costliest mistake -- The unrest in Ibadan and its effects on my career prospects -- Personal loss suffered as a result of the conflict -- Rehabilitation -- The most painful crisis of all -- Endpiece -- Chapter 8 POST CIVIL WAR REHABILITATION OF THE MATERNITY SERVICES OF RIVERS STATE, 1969- 1971 Duty called.
Rehabilitation efforts: some preliminary considerations -- Work done -- More details on the work done -- Experience of military encounters -- Other activities -- Proposal for a Government institute of maternal and child health at Port Harcourt -- Endpiece -- Chapter 9 A PIONEER OF SORTS IN THE ZARIA YEARS 1972-1981 Hard work and goodwill -- result: huge success -- Zaria: an overview -- Organisation of the medical complex: faculty of medicine and Institute of Health -- Early days in Zaria -- The department of obstetrics and gynaecology as I found it -- Short and-long-term plans for the department -- Consolidation and expansion of maternity care services -- Expansion of physical facilities -- Acceleration of staff development -- Fostering of research -- Collaboration among clinical departments -- Undergraduate medical training in obstetrics and gynaecology -- Personal clinical experiences -- Social life -- More about administrative duties -- Obstetrics and Gynaecology when I was dean and afterwards -- Obstetrics and gynaecology in Kaduna -- My last months in Zaria -- End piece -- Chapter 10 A DEAN IN THE ZARIA YEARS 1976-78 Kept going for real progress in an unusual academic environment -- The search for solutions to structural and allied problems -- What I was able to do -- Membership of the faculty board and staff matters -- Creation of the department of medical microbiology -- A new curriculum for the MBBS degree -- Progress in research and postgraduate training -- Physical facilities -- The group opposed to change and their activities -- The gathering storm -- What I was not able to do -- Occasions for cheer -- Perquisites -- Visitors -- welcome and unwelcome -- End piece -- Chapter 11 OF PERSONS AND MOMENTS DURING THE ZARIA YEARS They were all sorts -- Unrest and tensions in Nigeria -- Expatriates in ABU -- The most supportive of colleagues.
My trainees in Zaria -- Difficult persons -- My public lecture: child bearing in Zaria -- Controversies on appointments and promotions -- The acme of the struggle for power in ABU -- My health and related matters -- End piece -- Chapter 12 OVERVIEW OF UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT YEARS, 1981- 1998 -- Chapter 13 UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT: VICE CHANCELLOR 1989- 92 Achieved a cash surplus, fixed abandoned buildings, dead against impropriety, forced to resign -- The physical structures, their deficiencies and improvements -- More on wilful damage to physical facilities -- The dreadful staffing arrangements -- More revelations and gains -- Administrative problems -- Reflection -- End piece -- Chapter 14 UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT: MONEY AND CORRUPTION -- Fraud in CORDEC -- Multipurpose Building and Museum Building -- Audit of degree certificates in the university since its inception -- Admissions irregularities, admission fraud and extortion -- The case of a stolen computer -- Fraud in the Bursary: in payment of -- The School of Graduate Studies (SGS) -- End piece -- Chapter 15 UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT: SECRET CULTS AND VANDALS Scary encounters -- Origin of the secret cults -- The position of secret cults in the University of Port Harcourt in 1990 -- A stabbing incident and its aftermath -- Female students condemned secret cults -- One troublesome year after another -- The beginning of a major offensive against secret cults -- Federal Government agents take the cults seriously -- The trial of secret cult members -- Secret cults fight back -- Another storm before temporary calm -- Parents of secret cult members -- A truly scary tale -- Hired assassins alias Diobu boys -- Other aspects of -- Other disturbances -- And after: the storm broke again and again -- End piece.
Chapter 16 UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT: EXPERIENCE IN ITS TEACHING HOSPITALS A serious business but funny at times and chaotic often -- Clinical practice at Emuoha hospital -- General Hospital Port Harcourt as temporary teaching hospital -- Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP), Health and Poverty -- More on persons and events -- The permanent teaching hospital -- End piece -- Chapter 17 THE ZARIA MATERNITY SURVEY, 1974-1985 At times, the odds were overwhelming -- Zaria: the move towards data collection -- Pregnancy cards and data collection -- Improvement of facilities and the pilot project -- Progress and problems in Zaria and the search for international financial support -- Departure to Cardiff, Wales -- At Cardiff -- Interlude in Finland -- Back to Cardiff and its difficulties -- Collaboration with the Clinical Research Centre (CRC), Harrow -- Return to Zaria and to more trouble -- Through hell at the University of Port Harcourt -- Childbearing, health and social priorities: the contents -- End piece -- Chapter 18 EDITING MATERNITY CARE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, 1980- 2001 Another ordeal successfully surmounted -- John Lawson -- Staffan Bergström -- The Ethical Board of the Karolinska Institute -- The role of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists -- Eventual success -- End piece -- Chapter 19 VVF (VESICOVAGINAL FISTULA) SAGA -- Sowing the seeds -- Ibadan experiences under John Lawson and his team -- How it was in Zaria -- Advocacy work on VVF: within the department and hospital, in the community, in the country -- The international scene -- The National Task Force on VVF -- More memories -- End piece -- Chapter 20 ACCLAMATIONS Good times and moments of triumph -- Duties when I was located at Ibadan -- Duties when I was located at Zaria -- Duties when I was located at Port Harcourt -- Activities in international maternal health.
Association with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology ( RCOG).
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An arduous climb [[electronic resource] ] : from the creeks of the Niger Delta to leading obstetrician and University Vice Chancellor / / by Kelsey A. Harrison
