Annual report of the Medical Department / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1954]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Commencing in 1955 is is hoped that a total of 70 trainees, all of secondary III standard will be recruited each year. Thirty will go to Masaka and twenty to each Lira and Jinja. At the end of two years training as Nursing Orderlies the best students from all three schools will be sent to Masaka to undergo a third year’s training to qualify as Medical Assistants. The training school for Assistant Health Inspectors at Mbale is also being enlarged. All 16 pupils who entered for the examination for the East African Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute were successful. In 1955 a two years course for hygiene orderlies will be recommenced. With the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hostel for Nurses at Mulago, the training of midwives, formerly a monopoly of the missions, was commenced. Nine girls were enrolled and this number will be increased to twelve next year. The course is for two years for new entrants and one year for certificated nurses. It is hoped to begin the training of midwives at Gulu in the near future. An African nurse was awarded a scholarship by the Buganda Government and left for England in December for training in midwifery. She has already had teaching experience and it is hoped that on her return to Uganda she will assist in the training of midwives. A small hostel is to be built at Entebbe to accommodate trainees. Selected clerk-storekeepers already in the department were given an intensive course of storekeeping at the Central Store during the year. They will form the begin¬ nings of a new cadre of Assistant Medical Storekeepers. Assistant radiographers and entomological assistants continued to receive instruction at Mulago and the Central Laboratory, Kampala. It is hoped that the increased output from the various training schools will allow the expansion of services to commence as from 1956.