School of Medicine
In Uganda, most (about 80%) people live in rural areas where people are poor and have inadequate knowledge in health matters, and where health services are inadequate and the levels of illness and death are very high. In addition, the population is growing rapidly, 3.3% annually, just like socio-economic development (schools, factories, industries, e.t.c) is also expanding, all of which demand for more health workers.
To address the situation of poor health, government strategy in health service delivery is Primary Health care which emphasized decentralization and infrastructure development.
This however has not been followed by training appropriate health workers. Instead, the emphasis has been placed on training expensive medical doctors and who, after their training , prefer to work at private urban-based facilities or go abroad for greener pastures.
Overall, they are very few qualified and appropriate health workers in Uganda due to few training facilities.
Medicare Health Professionals College was Registered by Registrar of Companies in Uganda under No.52924 in 2002 to contribute to training the required level of health workers. The college is the proprietor of MACHSU School of Clinical Officers that was registered by the Ministry of Education and sports under No. PSS/M/164 in 2003 and also accredited by the allied Health Professionals Council of Ministry of Health.
The aims of the college are to have a well established and self-sustaining health training institution, to create knowledge in health, and to improve health services delivery in Uganda.
The objectives are to provide teaching and learning infrastructure, to sustain an adequate and well skilled teaching source, to collaborate with relevant stake holders In health training and service delivery, to train and to provide mid-level multi-disciplinary health workers, and to conduct health and applied scientific health research.
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