AKU to construct new campus in Kampala

KARACHI:

The Aga Khan University (AKU), Pakistan's first private university, is expanding its operations in Africa by constructing a new campus in Kampala.

The First Lady of Uganda, Her Excellency Janet Museveni, and Princess Zahra Aga Khan attended the ceremony to mark the start of the construction.

The 60-acre campus in the Nakawa area will have a seven-storey University Centre, a nine-storey student housing building. The hospital will provide medical care in almost two dozen specialities, including family medicine and oncology.

The project is one of AKU's most significant investments in East Africa. It will expand the university's existing School of Nursing and Midwifery and medical specialist training in internal medicine and surgery.

The construction of the hospital will begin early next year, and a four-storey ambulatory care building will offer outpatient care in various specialities before the hospital's completion.