3,000 Paramedics Graduate At Mulago
OVER 3,000 paramedical students breathed a sigh of relief after a long-awaited graduation took place on Friday.<br>
By Richard Komakech
OVER 3,000 paramedical students breathed a sigh of relief after a long-awaited graduation took place on Friday.
The ceremony, held at Mulago School of Nursing, was presided over by Hillary Onek, the Director of Education in the education ministry.
There are 27 Government and private paramedical schools in the country, and they hold joint graduation ceremonies.
The previous ceremony was held in 1997, and it was the first graduation under the Ministry of Education since the schools were transferred from the Ministry of Health in 1998.
Mbale and Gulu schools of clinical officers had the highest number of graduands at 574 and 402 for Diploma of Clinical and Community Medicine, followed by 346 who got certificates in Environment Science.
144 graduands were awarded Diplomas in Environment Science.
The graduands came from Soroti, Jinja, Mulago, Virika, Arua and Butabika School of Psychiatry.
The Principal, Mulago School of Nurses and Midwifery, Margaret Kaganda, decried the poor facilitation of the schools, saying the ministry had not responded to the increasing enrolment.
“These schools were started as departmental training institutions in the 1960s, but their infrastructure has never been changed to match the increasing enrolment and changing needs of the medical profession,†she said.
Onek, who represented the Minister of Education, Kiddu Makubuya, promised to help to streamline the schools’ operations and improve their infrastructure.
Kaganda also asked the ministry to fund annual graduations for each school. Ends
OVER 3,000 paramedical students breathed a sigh of relief after a long-awaited graduation took place on Friday.
The ceremony, held at Mulago School of Nursing, was presided over by Hillary Onek, the Director of Education in the education ministry.
There are 27 Government and private paramedical schools in the country, and they hold joint graduation ceremonies.
The previous ceremony was held in 1997, and it was the first graduation under the Ministry of Education since the schools were transferred from the Ministry of Health in 1998.
Mbale and Gulu schools of clinical officers had the highest number of graduands at 574 and 402 for Diploma of Clinical and Community Medicine, followed by 346 who got certificates in Environment Science.
144 graduands were awarded Diplomas in Environment Science.
The graduands came from Soroti, Jinja, Mulago, Virika, Arua and Butabika School of Psychiatry.
The Principal, Mulago School of Nurses and Midwifery, Margaret Kaganda, decried the poor facilitation of the schools, saying the ministry had not responded to the increasing enrolment.
“These schools were started as departmental training institutions in the 1960s, but their infrastructure has never been changed to match the increasing enrolment and changing needs of the medical profession,†she said.
Onek, who represented the Minister of Education, Kiddu Makubuya, promised to help to streamline the schools’ operations and improve their infrastructure.
Kaganda also asked the ministry to fund annual graduations for each school. Ends