Pharmacy Professionals Association of Uganda(PPAU)

My concern is with my colleagues in the Ministry of Health, particularly The problem is that they are not engaging in meaningful dialogue. They sit and wait for a hailstorm to hit them, then react by saying, “Oh, it’s raining! Are those stones? This is a hailstorm!” First, they license universities. During the licensing process, the government not necessarily the Ministry of Health alone sets the number of students each university is allowed to admit. But what benchmarks inform these decisions? Let me give you an example, without mentioning the university. One university had been admitting 200 students, but its admission numbers were reduced to 60. What was the rationale behind that decision? We are saying that these decisions should be based on clear criteria, including the number of lecture halls, the availability of lecturers, and the number of cadavers available for medical training. Ideally, the ratio should be about four to six medical students per cadaver, with a maximum of eight students per cadaver.