Infrastructure

The School has an administration block which holds offices and lecture rooms, Annex campus for dormitories and both Campuses are enclosed with a perimeter wall / chain link fence with a well-kept compound and bituminized walk-ways.

Field Training;

The field practicum is done from Hoima Regional Referral Hospital and the Health Units within the Bunyoro Sub-Region.

Strengths

• Strong leadership and management committed to take the school to greater heights.
• Qualified, highly experienced and committed staff.
• Decentralized system which facilitates efficient service delivery.
• Gender mainstreaming and provision of affirmative action
• Relevant academic programs
• Good reputation
• Possibility for physical expansion

Weaknesses

• Low level of staffing
• Inadequate use of innovative teaching methodologies
• Inadequate teaching and learning materials
• Inadequate transport facilities to cater for the needs of students and staff
• Weak experience of middle and lower level managers in planning, organizing monitoring and support and evaluation practices.
• Inadequate infrastructure(office space, lecture rooms, libraries and teaching labalatories0 and absence of accommodation facilities for students
• Limited space for expansion
• Limited areas of academic disciplines offered
• Inadequate allocation, arrangement, maintenance and management of facilities.
• Gender imbalance
• Slow adaptation of ICT among senior staff

Opportunities

• Positive political support for capacity building and educational expansion
• The school proximity to southern Sudan and DR Congo
• Accessibility to the National fibre optic backbone
• High demand for skills education and training
• Good will from stakeholders
• The growing need for consultancy services
• Growing oil and gas investment sector
• Globalization and rapid technological change
• Access to modern technologies
• Availability of introduction of Diploma Training
• Access to media.

Threats

• Competition from other Health Training Institutions for students and staff
• Limited autonomy
• Policy Dynamism
• Addiction and weak health consciousness
• Bureaucratic public procurement system
• Increasing cost of living
• Decreasing employment opportunities for graduates
• Increasing level of poverty especially in the rural areas
• Rampant disease e.g. HIV and AIDS, Malaria, Hepatitis B that affect the population