Medical Students Drag Health Minister To Court Over Internship

Posted by: frank mubiru in Health September 23, 2016

Over 1000 medical students have dragged the Minister of Health, Dr Ruth Aceng and the Attorney General to High Court in Kampala challenging the new internship policy.

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They claim the new internship policy restricts their access to supervised practical training at various centres.

Led by Emma Amadriyo, the group is also opposed to the introduction of new conditions set for internship that include a mandatory two year service at government health facility.

The medical students now want court to issue an order quashing the new guidelines and order for necessary arrangement to ensure that they are posted to internship training centres to receive supervised practical training and paid the same emoluments as the former interns.

The group consists of prospective medical doctors, dental surgeons, pharmacists and nurses who ought to have been posted by the ministry of health in August 2016 to various internship centres country wide.

Supervised practical training is prerequisite for registration, enrolment, certification and licensure of qualified and recognized health professional.

On September 7, 2016, the Minister of Health announced a drastic reversal of the internship policy while appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Health to explain why there had been unusual delay in posting the applicants and other similarly situated graduates to the various internship/training centres countrywide.

Source: Monitor

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