Mwinyi to grace MUHAS graduation as it speeds on

JIMMY LWANGILI

RETIRED President, Ali Hassan Mwinyi is expecting to grace the 11th graduation ceremony of the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science (MUHAS) on Saturday afternoon at the Muhimbili campus in Dar es Salaam.

Briefing the press conference on the event, the MUHAS Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof Appolinary Kamuhabwa, said 361 of the 2016/ 2017 batch of 1,031 candidates are females, whose number had been consistently rising.

“Our goal is to increase the number of female graduates in the institution by encouraging female students to enroll in various science courses, in order to increase female experts in the health sector,” he said.

Prof Kamuhabwa said the second phase president, who is also the Chancellor of MUHAS, will award diplomas and degrees. Elaborating, he explained that 296 graduates will be awarded a diploma in Health and Allied Science, and 13 will be awarded advanced diplomas.

Four hundred and seventy eight graduates will be awarded bachelor degrees in health and allied sciences, 231 master’s degrees of the same course and 12 graduates will receive master’s degrees in super specialty.

Compared to last year, he said, the number of graduates in the master’s programme had increased to 24 per cent. “The increase is an outcome of the institution’s efforts to introduce courses according to employment market demands,” he said.

He said due to the high demand of high level health experts, the institution had been increasing masters programmes. During the 2016/2017 academic year, master’s programmes had been introduced in Histotechnology and Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation in Health fields, he added.

As part of the graduation festivities, MUHAS has organised the second Alumni conference that is expected to start today, focused on reconnection by MUHAS graduates, and creation of openings for them to cooperate with the institution.