Expand Varsities, Museveni Orders CONGS: Museveni (right) receives a honorary degree from chancellor Fredrick Kayanja By Allan Turyaguma President Yoweri Museveni has directed the ministry of education to equip government universities with adequate facilities so that all students who qualify to do human medicine are admitted. Museveni said Uganda needs about 50,000 doctors but it was absurd that only 10% of the students who qualify to do medicine are facilitated. The President said this on Saturday at Mbarara University of Science and Technology ninth graduation at the Pharmacology theatre grounds. �When I was here for the last graduation, the vice chancellor told me that only 10% of the children who qualify to do medicine are admitted due to limited facilities. This is scandalous! I have directed the ministry of Education to work hard to ensure that everyone who qualifies to do medicine is admitted,� he said. Out of the 196 graduands at MUST, only 60 got degrees in human medicine. �It is a wastage of fuel for the president to come from Kampala to graduate only 60 doctors. It should be at least 400 per graduation,� Museveni said. He said the Ugandan doctor-patient ratio of 1:18,000 was alarming. Museveni said enrolment in all Universities should increase from the current 57,000 to 200,000. �We need more students in universities. We want to transform Uganda into a modern country,� he said. Museveni was at the same occasion awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws for his distinguished service to the University and Uganda as a whole. There was loud applause when Miss Uganda, Rehema Nakuya�s name was read among those who graduated in human medicine. Museveni advised the graduands to be cautious as they go to the field and avoid catching the killer HIV/AIDS disease. �The biggest challenge for our young people today is to stay alive and healthy. Keep alive,� he said.
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