Dignitaries including the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, the Vice Chancellor of Kyambogo University, the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, the University Secretary, the University Bursar, Deans of Faculty’s, Heads of Departments, Simed and MeduProf-S representatives, Staff and Students of the Biomedical Engineering Department were all present for the official launch of the Biomedical Engineering Diploma Program at Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda today.
The dream of a Biomedical Engineering Program in Uganda began in 1994 when Karl Mock from Simed and Engineer Mutengezi started discussions. In 2008 the discussions started again as part of the Simed ORET program with the Ministry of Health, Simed, the teachers of Kyambogo University and Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.
During the last three years, teacher exchanges between Kyambogo University and the Netherlands have taken place, students have helped refurbish a computer lab, a classroom and a skills lab; all of which has resulted in 20 students registering for the Diploma Program and the official launch taking place today.
MeduProf-S will continue to support the program with further visits to Kyambogo University by teachers from the Netherlands and the training of teachers to enable them to introduce e-Learning modules into the program.