Makerere University has made an increment in the medical fees that the students pay to the university hospital due to complaints by the officials that operate it effective this year.
The fees that were formally 10,000 shillings have been hiked to 50,000shillings. This fee is bound to ease the day to day running of the Hospital to solve overwhelming issues like limited drugs and paying off the facility’s employees but also to effectively serve the primary clients who are the students.
“This money will improve service delivery at the hospital,” said Professor Josephat Byamugisha, the Director Makerere University Hospital. He added that the former amount was insufficient and asserted that there will always be a review of the medical fees after a specified period of time.
This increment has been embedded in the 15% tuition increment being implemented effective August this year that was earlier announced this year.
Despite the anticipated controversy that comes with any fees increment at the university, it ought to be noted that students in other public government university like Kyambogo and Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) already part with 50,000 shillings.
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