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Medical interns have announced a sit-down strike that kicks off today contrary to their previous announcement that it would start on Sunday 6th.
The announcement of the strike came on Thursday last week. The interns were asking the government to increase their salaries amongst other issues.
The medical interns including doctors, pharmacists, nurses and intern midwives claim they have gone two months without payment. They, therefore, demand for immediate payment of their amounts due before they can go back to work.
The president of the interns, Ronald Mutebi and Prossy Nakyanzi the speaker for the intern pharmacists in Uganda led the group of interns.
They revealed that if the government doesn’t respond to their call, they will lay down their tools.
Mr Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the MoH spokesperson appealed to the interns to return to the hospitals. He assured them that from today, some of their grievances will be taken care of starting with some payments.
“We expect a number of them to start receiving their allowances. The other issues they are raising are like discrepancies in enhanced allowances,” he said
He also revealed that the government will definitely take care of these as soon as the resources are availed.
He however cautioned the medical interns about how bad a time it is to be leaving work as the country faces an Ebola outbreak.
“But it’s not also the right time for them to start talking of going on strike. We are faced with an Ebola outbreak which they really need to attend to as people training to be health professionals,” he added.
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