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Universities run out of dead bodies

A severe shortage of cadavers, the preserved human bodies used to teach anatomy, is crippling several medical schools and undermining acquisition of knowledge and skills for future doctors.

Doctors perform surgery in an operating theatre. Medical educators warn that the shortage of cadavers is undermining anatomy training in universities, urging people to embrace body donation.
By: John Musenze, Journalist @New Vision


KAMPALA - The growing number of universities offering medical courses in the country is creating an unexpected challenge for the education and health sectors.

A severe shortage of

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