A total of 3,958 out of 4,255 registered nurses and midwives who sat for the 2023 final exams have been cleared to start working in hospitals.
The nurses and midwives include 2,910 females, representing 68.4 percent, and 1345 males, representing 31.6 percent.
A total of 2,808 candidates (66.9 percent) were examined in certificate programmes, and another 1,447 (34 percent) in the diploma programmes.
The 2023 Uganda Nurses and Midwives Exams results were released in Kampala yesterday.
Janet Museveni the minister of education and sports in her speech read by Dr John Chrysostom Muyingo, the Minister of State for Higher Education expressed happiness to learn that 90.7 percent of the 4,255 candidates passed their final exams.
Janet Museveni said that it is a great achievement for the Education and Sports sector and the country at large.
Ms Hellen Mukakarisa, the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examination Board (UNMEB) executive secretary, said 27 candidates under the certificate programmes did not turn up for the final examinations.
She said a total of 231 certificate candidates were ungraded.
Ms Mukakarisa said 32 candidates under diploma programme were ungraded, representing 2.2 percent, while seven (7) diploma candidates did not turn up for the exams.
