{"id":155015,"date":"2015-09-27T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T11:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=155015"},"modified":"2015-09-27T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T11:42:42","slug":"university-of-health-matriculates-first-batch-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/09\/university-of-health-matriculates-first-batch-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Health matriculates first batch of students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first batch of students at the permanent campus of the University Health and Allied Sciences were on Saturday matriculated into the various faculties and departments of the school in Ho.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;7ZZqBvfVTgVP8gBZYIiiAw0ejBGeyv0Y&#8221;]In all 829 students out of the 4124 applicants have been officially initiated into the University for the 2015\/2016 academic year to pursue various degree programs in Dietetics, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Public Health, Midwifery, Nursing, Medicine, Physician Assistantship, Physiotherapy as well as Speech and Language Therapy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Established in 2012 UHAS is the first publicly-funded state university in the Volta region with sole aim of becoming a leading health institution in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the ceremony, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Newton Fred Binka said the number of prospective applicants to the University has sharply shot up over the few years of its existence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOver the years the university has a seen a steady but huge increase in the number of applicants who wish pursue their dreams of becoming health professionals.\u00a0Last year we received 2011 applications for the 2014\/2015 academic year and we were only able to offer places and enrolled 458 students. 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