As the doctors’ strike that enters its third week today has had far-reaching effects.
The strike by doctors has severely affected services in public hospitals countrywide, but no-one anticipated that it would also have an effect on undergraduate medical students.
The latest effect is that more than 250 undergraduate students of medicine at Makerere University have demanded that the exams be postponed until they have the clinical skill set to treat patients.
These practicals are done at Mulago hospital on a daily basis.
Medical students say they want the exams terminated with one insisting that her skill set has not been tested due to lack of patients.
The students say that since the strike began, the number of patients seeking help at public hospitals has dwindled.
The Chair of the Department of Medicine at Makerere University College of Health Sciences Prof Moses Kamya met the students today.
After a meeting with the students Professor Kamya, said their complaints would be forwarded to the main administration.
Reporting by NTV
