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By: Norlina
Pada 5hD Julai 2011, satu majlis Penyerahan Projek-Projek Siap UMS telah berlangsung di bangunan Pusat Pengajian Pascasiswazah, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Acara bermula pada jam 2.00 petang dengan ketibaan YBhg Datuk Ab.
Rahim bin Md. Noor selaku Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi Malaysia. Majlis ini turut dihadiri oleh YBhg Brig Jeneral Prof Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Kamaruzaman Haji Ampon (Naib Canselor Universiti Malaysia Sabah), YBhg Dato' Ir Haji Mohammad bin Husin (Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Kerja Raya 1) clan para kakitangan universiti.
Majlis penyerahan bangunan dimulakan dengan penyerahan Dewan Kuliah Pusat, Pusat Pengajian Pascasiswazah dan seterusnya bangunan Sekolah Perubatan. Dengan terletaknya di kawasan penjuru kampus di antara dua kawasan paya bakau yang dilindungi oleh pihak UMS, keluasan lantai adalah berjumlah 32,000 meter persegi dan dibina di atas tapak seluas 32 ekar. Pembinaan bangunan ini bemilai RM259 juta dan telah dimulakan pada 2"° Mei 2008 dan disempurnakan pada 28ro April 2011.
Terdapat sebanyak lima buah blok bangunan iaitu tiga blok menempatkan tujuh buah Jabatan Perubatan iaitu Surgical Base, Medicine Based, Reproductive, Pathobiology, Biomedical, Medical Education dan Community (Blok C, D, E), bangunan Fasiliti Bersepadu (Blok B) dan bangunan pentadbiran (Blok A).
Dengan kewujudan bangunan baru ini, ia dapat meletakkan UMS sebagai salah sebuah Universiti tempatan yang lebih berketerampilan dan berkualitl. Kemudahan dan fasili6 yang baikjuga membantu para pensyarah menghasilkan kerja-kerja penyelidikan mahupun memberi peluang kepada pelajar untuk terus cemerlang di dalam pendidikan mereka.
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During 25th - 271 of May 2011, Universiti Malaysia Sabah organized a visit to Zero Tuberculosis World, Seoul Korea. The purpose of this visit was to make partnership with Zero TB committee in terms of keeping the quality life of TB patients in Sabah, cooperate with each other in making TB Management Project and participate in collaborative projects and research programs, by signing a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two organizations. This three-day visit program was attended by nine important persons from Universiti Malaysia Sabah which included Y. Bhg Tan Sri Datuk Abdul Hamid Egoh (Chairman, Board of Directors), Y. Bhg Puan Sri Zainab Aman (wife of the Chairman, Board of Directors), YBhg Brig Jeri Prof Datuk Sen Panglima Dr Kamaruzaman Haji Ampon (Vice Chancellor), Prof Dr Osman Ali (Dean School of Medicine), Prof Dr Young-Hwan Yeo (Professor at School of Arts Studies), Dr Mokhtarrudin Haji Ahmad (Director Corporate Relations Division), Miss Kang Myoung Sook (Lecturer, Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge & Language), Mr Talib Abdullah Shahni (Senior Assistant Registrar, Registrar Office) and Mr Mohd Zaidie Adilai (Senior Assistant Registrar, School of Medicine).
One of the agendas was a session on signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which was executed on the 25"1 of May 2011 at Hotel Grand Ambassador Seoul, Korea. Other activities included visits to Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA), Korean Institute of Tuberculosis, Seoul Municipal Seobuk Hospital, and the Seoul National University Hospital followed by technical discussions between Zero TB committee and the School of Medicine, UMS.
In addition, this visit was beneficial to both the organizations as they could make a better collaboration as well as promote our university in the international arena. The open discussions with the collaborative agencies of Zero Tuberculosis World program was also successful, which brought a greater understanding and closeness between UMS and the their committees.
