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Hellen Kyakuwaire, the best nursing student, displays her award at the graduation ceremony at Kampala Serena Hotel on Saturday. Right is the chairman board of trustees of Aga Khan University, Saidi Ullah Khan Dehlvi |
UGANDA should address the shortage of health workers if it is to attain the Millennium Development Goals, the health minister, Dr. Stephen Mallinga, has said.
“Diseases like meningitis and ebola present serious health demands. There is need to train more health workers,” he said.
In a speech read by the director for clinical services in the health ministry, Dr. Nathan Kenya-Mugisha, Mallinga said: “It is disturbing to note that Africa has 24% of the global disease burden, but has only 3% of the world’s health workers.”
This was during the sixth graduation ceremony for the Aga Khan University at Kampala Serena Hotel on Saturday.
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Firoz Rasul, the head of the 25-year-old university, said the institution would over the next ten years, devote more funds to improve tertiary education in East Africa.
The university is in the process of establishing a faculty of health sciences in Nairobi, Kenya and of arts and sciences in Arusha, Tanzania.
Rasul said, the university would introduce a diploma in accident, emergency and disaster management.
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