1. WHERE WE CAME FROM

Introduction;
St. Elizabeth’s Institute of Health Professionals-Mukono (SELIHEP), opened its doors to the medical training in the year 2005 and, as I write in the year 2023, we are moving towards our 19th year of existence, which period of time has been punctuated by blessings from God, academic excellence, popularity and success for which we greatly thank God.

As I happily reminisce in thanksgiving to God, and I recall that the 1st day August 2005 is when our first student one J. Ssali knocked on our Institute’s doors as our very first students to apply for the course of a Certificate in Medical Laboratory, I can’t fail to thank God even more!!

 

Upon the inception of our Institute our first class of student offering a certificate course in medical laboratory technology started with only four students, namely:
1. Ssali . J.
2. Kwagala Susan
3. Tumuhairwe D. and
4. Ssesanga Ronnie

But the class population grew up slowly and by the time we closed the first semester of that year, we had forty students. The photographs of our first class of students to be admitted are shown in our website gallery.

We have since our inception thanked those gallant students who saw hope in us, although we appeared hopeless at that time, and they risked being admitted into our newly established school. We love and cherish them so much!! They sowed the seeds that have continued to grow and thrive with bumper yields.

But we also never disappointed them, because by the end of their training they all passed with flying colours and subsequently got good jobs in medical fraternity.

Subsequently, as time went by, we introduced more medical courses such as;
1. Clinical medicine and community health,
2. Certificate in Pharmacy
3. Diploma in Pharmacy
4. Certificate in Medical Laboratory Techniques
5. Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology
6. Diploma in Clinical Medicine
7. Certificate in Nursing
8. Certificate in midwifery and we have more in the pipe line.

2. WHERE WE ARE.
As outlined above, from the initial course of a certificate in medical laboratory with the above mentioned few number of students, we have since been licenced to offer three diploma courses and five certificate courses and we have during the period trained thousands of students in the above mentioned courses who are in active and successful medical practice within Uganda and, elsewhere in the world.

Many of our students numbering in hundreds have upgraded to higher medical positions of medical doctors, and degree holders in the different fields and some at medical consultancy levels.

I want to heartly thank Sr. Dorcas Katali (R.I.P) who assisted us start this august medical institution, my unreserved thanks also go to Mr. Ndhego Ramadhan, our very first tutor and who subsequently became a principal and many other professional and non-professional staff members who have accompanied us in the professional journey of training of young health workers.

I say young health workers because majorly our students have, save for some isolated cases, been adolescents.

3. WHERE WE ARE GOING.
In the year 2023, we have started to forecast and plan for the twenty (20) years anniversary celebrations of our existence in thank giving to God for the bumper harvest we have garnered. We thank God for the good health, wisdom, academic excellence and the wonderful jobs and medical services our students have rendered to humanity here in Uganda and the world over.

As we kick start the plans for our 20 year anniversary, we want to give back to the communities in thank giving to God, by starting with an institutional promotional and visibility drive through which we want to traverse the whole country and offer medical education at reduced cost to secondary school leavers, who are interested to become medical professionals.

We shall between now and 2025 have community based health service provision at community levels throughout the country, to be conducted by our graduates, continuing students and staffs.

We shall visit hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, babies homes, to mention but a few, to provide free medical services in celebration and thank giving to God.

On the side of development, in the future, we can see ourselves greatly improving our infrastructure, improve on quality of service delivery and triple the students’ population and expand our Kayunga and Njeru campuses, and create even more.

We therefore very much thank all our stake holders, with whom we have travelled this far, while we continue to ask them to continue with us the collaboration we have had together in the past.Together; “We train for healthier communities”

Mr. Ssebaggala Paul Raymond
Founder and Resident Director

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