Soroti University has embarked on a tour of health facilities in Teso to assess their suitability to be used as clinical sites with a visit yesterday by a technical team to Katakwi general hospital’s to assess the hospital suitability in teaching medical students.
Soroti University is set to run four programs in the school of health sciences starting in the 2024/2025 academic year. Bachelor of Physiotherapy and Medical laboratory sciences has been added to the Bachelor of Medicine and surgery and Bachelor of nursing science.
The Dean School of health sciences Prof. Kirya Fred visiting the Paediatrics ward in Katakwi general hospital. Photo by (Nyene Juma Hassan)
Part of the training of medical students is done in a hospital setting and currently Soroti regional referral hospital is being used for the clinical sessions. However, the increasing number of programs and students means the teaching space at the referral hospital is inadequate hence the need to identify other health facilities within the region.
Management therefore dispatched a technical team to identify potential clinical sites starting with the visit to Katakwi general hospital to carry out on spot assessment of the hospital.
The medical supplies at the Katakwi general hospital. Photo by (Nyene Juma Hassan)
The aim is to look at the general infrastructure available at the hospitals, identify the challenges and inadequacies and recommend to management on the way forward on how to improve the facilities to suit the minimum standards to support teaching and learning during the clinical years.
Back up solar power plant at Katakwi general hospital.