The sixth-phase government led by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon. Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, has increased loans for higher education students from 464 billion shillings in the 2024/2025 budget to 787 billion in the 2025/2026 budget.
The Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Professor Adolf Mkenda, made the remarks in Dodoma while speaking to journalists about the government's achievements over the past four years at the Habari Maelezo Hall, stressing that his ministry has added two more centers of excellence in medical education in East Africa, which are expected to be built in the country, bringing the total number of centers to three.
He said that one of the centers will be Benjamini Mkapa in collaboration with the University of Dodoma-UDOM and the other will be Mloganzila, thus creating three centers of excellence in medical education in East Africa.
Minister Mkenda also said that a center of excellence for medical education, cardiovascular science and medicine is being built, which has currently raised $83 million and construction will take place at the Jakaya Kikwete Heart Institute-JKCI, which will be an excellent center for cardiovascular diseases.
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