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Raymond Jaravaza, Online Reporter
The late Professor Bubuya Masola, a former Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Science and Technology, passed away at a time when the university was about to embark on a major project that would transform the country’s medical landscape.
This was said by NUST Vice Chancellor Professor Mqhele Dlodlo at the late educator’s memorial service at Amphitheatre on Tuesday morning.
Professor Masola died at his flat last Wednesday at the age of 69.
He will be buried today at the Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo.
“Professor Masola passed away a time when NUST is in the process of reviving the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Ekusileni Hospital into a top pre and postnatal hospital in the country. NUST is poorer without Professor Masola,” said VC Prof Mqhele.
Prof Masola joined the institution in 2018 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine.
Before joining the university, Prof Masola worked as a Clinical Biochemist at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare from January 1985 to March 1986. He then moved to the University of Zimbabwe where he worked as a lecturer from April 1986 to December 2005.
Prof Masola retired from the university service on December 31, 2020, and since the beginning of 2021, he has been on annual post-retirement contracts until the time of his death.
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