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The 1,403 medical interns, working in 42 hospitals enacted an industrial action due to meager payments and pitiable working conditions.
Statistics show that 80 percent of patients in the hospitals are assisted by medical interns that is to say graduate nurses, pharmacists and dental surgeons.
The following demands were made by the Federation for Uganda Medical Interns (FUMI) to the government, a monthly wage hike from Shs750,000 to Shs3 million to doctors and pharmacists and graduate nurses from Shs750,000 to Shs2.2 million respectively.
After a meeting with Mr. Museveni, he directed that they should be paid 2.5 million per month which promise the ministry of finance has not fulfilled up to now.
The promise to provide them with Personal protective equipment (PPE) has not been fulfilled up to now.
Even their colleagues who died or contracted COVID-19 while on duty have not been compensated up to now.
The FDC believes that the sacking of medical interns by DR. Mwebesa is illegal and unconstitutional because no Ugandan should be punished for protesting for what is due to him or her.
“Let Mr. Mwebasa show us the letter he wrote to the ministry of health addressing the issues of the intern doctors. Let him show us the letter he wrote to the ministry of finance asking them to release the funds that were promised to them as per the directive of Mr. Museveni,” said FDC deputy spokesperson John Kikonyogo on Monday.
“Let him show us the letter he wrote to the president informing him that the money he directed to be released has not been released. Then we can say that everything has been done within his powers to fulfill the agreement with interns and it’s the interns that have not been patient.”
According to him, Ugandans should all come up and join the medical interns and the entire medical fraternity in fighting for the health services because the net looser is a Ugandan who is demanding for services from government.
“The government should stop the use of intimidation towards its own workers, who are rightly demanding what has been promised to them.”
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