Medical schools urged to build health facilities on their premises

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The increase in medical schools in the country has led to an overwhelming number of medical students who need medical facilities to practice, and hospitals are not enough to accommodate them.

The Head of Private Medical Schools and Chairman of the National Medical Schools Quality Assurance Committee Dr. John Wakida advised medical institutes to build hospitals in their schools to enable trainees to do their training because of the shortage of the training hospitals.

He was speaking at St. Francis School of Health Sciences in Namataba, Mukono district, at the celebration of St. Francis day

Dr. Wakida said they want to ensure that the country produces quality medical officers who can professionally fight the diseases that are emerging every day.

The principal of St. Francis School Health Professionals Institute, Namataba Kiwanuka Bbosa, said they are now in the process of building a hospital at the school to solve the problems they have been having in getting their children to practice.