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Medical workers under their umbrella body, the Uganda Medical Association have accused the government of hypocrisy. This is because of the government’s decision not to implement the presidential directive on employing all healthcare workers who served during the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Dr. Samuel Oledo, the president of UMA, all medical workers that were deployed during the Covid-19 pandemic, must ...

Mulumba Moses, director at Center For health, human rights and development has cautioned government about the ongoing doctors strike. He says if the strike is not looked at as a national crisis, then the issue will never be solved. According to him, the doctors laying their tools down is a national problem and something should be done as soon as ...

Nurses have demanded that government pays them risk allowance during covid lock down. Cherop Kiplangat Uganda nurses and midwives Union president argued that working in hospitals during covid season has put them at most risk to diseases yet they are not insured. “As we celebrate international nurses and midwives day we appeal to government to take safety of nurses as ...

Hardly a week after medical doctors suspended their three-week strike over pay, nurses and midwives have issued a one-week ultimatum to government to raise their salaries and better their working conditions or they down their tools. Check also: Doctors Set To Strike The nurses and midwives did not participate in the doctors’ strike, saying it was illegal but in a November ...