Maseno University making new strides

Secondary School graduates from Nyanza who aspire to do degree-level medicine-oriented courses now have to look no further than Maseno University. The institution has spent over Sh50 million in setting up a new medicine degree training programme whose first batch of student intake reported late September. Also introduced are new courses in Nursing, Pharmacy, Law, Architecture, Agriculture, Food Security ,Fisheries and Marine Engineering that would see an increase in the student population from the current 5500 to 15,000 at the end of the 2010-2017 strategic period. The new Vice Chancellor Prof Dominic Makawiti announced that at a later stage they would seek for funds to set up a teaching and referral hospital to compliment the newly introduce medicine course. “For this we need over Sh10 billion, but before we get the more we would use the New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital for our training purposes,” he said. He spoke during his installation ceremony as the institution’s head, taking over from Prof Frederick Onyango who has retired after being at the hem for 10 years.