The Principal of the College of Health Sciences Prof. Charles Ibingira has summoned his staff for a meeting scheduled for Tuesday 8th November, 2016 at 8 a.m.
The meeting is meant to forge a way forward after defiant postgraduate medical students stalled activities of Mulago National Referral Hospital due to the President’s directive to close Makerere university.
“They (government) wrote a letter and tomorrow our Principal wants to talk to us but our stand is clear; We are not here to provide free labour to this Country. People must learn to respect others. You don’t just wake up and close a University without thinking of consequences. Now it’s either the whole of Makerere to be re-opened or no more free labour for Mulago hospital and its subsections”, vowed one of the students who requested anonymity.
From the communique they drafted and hope to circulate to all necessary stakeholders, the medical postgraduates are spitting venom.
“We the post-graduate students of the College of Health Sciences are not different from other students. Our education is just as important as that of other post-graduates and undergraduates of Makerere University. Therefore the College cannot open in isolation.”
Because of the closure of the Makerere university, Mulago National Referral Hospital has experienced shortage of man power as over 300 post-graduate doctors left the hospital and its affiliates within Kampala that include Kawempe MNRH Directorate of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kiruddu Hospital and Naguru China-Uganda Friendship Hospital where services largely depend on the post-graduate students and Lecturers from the university.
Even amidst all this, the government of Uganda has not come out to clearly clarify on the date when the University is seemingly going to re-open.
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