Inadequate lecture theatres, seminar rooms, and laboratories at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) is impeding the enrolment of more medical students at the School of Medical Sciences (SMS) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi.
Professor Akwasi Antwi-Kusi, Dean of KNUST-SMS, who stated this, said the school had the potential of admitting more students, but the lack of adequate teaching and learning infrastructure, such as lecture theatres and seminar rooms at KATH, was hindering the plans.
The school, this year alone, shortlisted some 1,040 applicants with an aggregate six (6) to eight (8) for interview to be admitted, but was able to admit only 240 of them, denying almost 800 brilliant students the opportunity to read medicine at the KNUST.
Speaking at the 50th Anniversary of the KNUST-SMS in Kumasi, he pointed out that, after five decades, the school was yet to have its own office accommodation for lecturers at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. "Again, even though our combined class of the medical and dental students stands at 320, our classrooms at KATH can only accommodate 120 students.
