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Janet Museveni directs on admission of students to nursing course

First Lady and education minister Janet Kataaha Museveni has directed health institutions to limit the number of students admitted into nursing and midwifery programs to address overcrowding in training facilities.

Speaking at the release of the June 2024 results for nurses and Midwives, Mrs Museveni emphasized that Uganda currently lacks resources to expand or build enough hospitals to accommodate the growing number of trainees.

According to her, reducing student intake is a practical solution to the overcrowding problem, which she attributed to inadequate planning.

“Therefore, the wise, prudent, and easiest intervention that is within our power now is to reduce the number of students admitted in the first place,” Mrs Museveni remarked on Thursday.

“As we all know, we do not have the resources we need to take care of the many things that we have to do and this includes building enough hospitals or expanding the existing ones so that we have more room to train our nurses, midwives and other health workers,” Mrs Museveni added.