Simon M (M.D)

| FUTURIST | #ECO_SOLDIER #35TH GUILD MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT @MbararaUST | #PEACE_ADDICT | #MUFC_ part-timer | DOCTOR

[Bwindi Community Hospital @BwindiHospital]

Obstetric Fistula Camp 2026 is here

Our surgical team will provide free surgical care for:

✅obstetric fistula
✅ urine incontinences
✅ genital prolapse
✅birth-related complications

Date: 24th-31st, October

All services are free of charge

Contact us: 0778-460-849

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@KIBUUKARONALD18 😹tujja kulima

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@hotniqqha Just “Lutoti syndrome” disturbing them…..
“Drug loads” who want to control the manufacture and distribution of drugs with no checks and balances

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@GwebayangaC 😹these “doctors” also!!!….The Dr. title gave you wings on paper but ku ground you shrink. We should neutralize this ego by calling all healthcare workers doctors and see whose roles you will attack

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@GraceAnne56691 @DeeSandy20 I know you were not there!… I just don’t know how you came to the conclusion that fibroids were not there among your ancestors and yet they’ve existed for ages according to literature

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@ShaffiuK @DeeSandy20 They’re uterine leiomyomas

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@DeeSandy20 Dear clients, visit your doctor for assessment and a chat for your concerns.
Otherwise i will leave with this to read

https://t.co/SOFgGiHar9

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@GraceAnne56691 @DeeSandy20 You confirm with authority as if you existed with ancestors to observe your allegations

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@DrOtileUg I know of an intensivist who’s also a DJ….😂😂.

[Uganda Medical Association @TheUMAofficial]

Respect for medical workers is not optional. It is the backbone of a functioning health system. Protect the hands that heal.

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@AGA_Platform @_AfricanUnion @YouthEnvoyAU Definitely @shalomchantal

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@NewtonAllan6 Nil per os

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@Airtel_Ug @AirtelUGMD @mkiboneka @Airtel_Ug so you mean other providers don't allow background updates? I shall continue viewing your adds using other Internet service providers and your line for just WhatsApp
. Mwesotinge

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@rkalyes1 @URAuganda @DailyMonitor @27Jipman @Makerere_Medics @kafeeromj @CelestinoGutirr @DrMutungaEA @MugenyiHenry_ @CKyobutungi @blair_kizza @bruno_KUg @andy_keto Scorched-earth policy was a serious point the tacts of zwangendaba

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@SpireJim Even us who read the books willingly have been abandoned by @MinofHealthUG.......let the child be

[Anthony Natif @TonyNatif]

MEDICAL INTERNS: To Pay or Not to Pay.

I’ve seen raging debates on whether interns should be paid or not.

I think it’s a wrong debate.

We don’t really pay interns in this country. We give them a subsistence allowance.

We basically hand them enough resources to keep them alive (barely) so they can keep millions of Ugandans alive.

Interns and to a lesser extent SHOs are the backbone of Uganda’s public healthcare sector.

It’s not unusual to hear of medical interns who log more than 100 hour work weeks. Back to Back to Back.

In some hospitals in far-flung districts, these interns are usually the only ones on duty. They run the hospitals while their supervisors (hospital superintendents) chill in malwa joints.

We call this learning and say the interns should be grateful and even pay for the opportunity.

The only learning happening in most of these settings is learning how to swim at deep ends because that’s where they’re thrown. ALL THE TIME!

They’re expected to navigate the raging waves of drug stock-outs, shortage of gloves, blood, equipment, name it.

They see their patients succumb to curable illnesses because of lack of antibiotics that cost less than $10 a dose. They hurt, roll over their deceased patients, dust themselves off and come to fight another day. It’s a brutal grind. Emotionally debilitating too. The sense of helplessness is overwhelming.

I can’t imagine having this compounded by constant calls from landlords and hunger pangs because they don’t have any cash to support them.

It’s understandable when the government says it’s embracing austerity measures and thus needs to prioritize its expenses. But to start by cutting off the lifeblood of a nation is a strange approach.

What do we lose, for instance, if we reduce the number of @Parliament_Ug sittings by half and reallocate those funds to areas like this? It’s not like those debates of theirs are moving the Ugandan socio-economic needle that much.

As an austerity measure, we can have less of them in the short term and keep Ugandans alive.

Then you have the budget that supports external healthcare to the higher political classes. This alone can pay interns for a few years.

What does it say that we have some Ugandans with government funded Cadillac healthcare and others with nothing to write home about? Isn’t it time we went back and revised those allocations in an equitable manner?

The other alternative would be a full embrace of co-pay in government hospitals.

One suspects that this has political ramifications that the government wouldn’t wanna see in the short to medium term, especially with 2026 around the corner.

It’s the same reason the National Health Insurance Scheme might never see the light of day.

But ultimately, it will have to come to us tasking anyone looking to access public healthcare to chip in something. A dollar here, a chicken and goat there, a post training income tax break for medical workers etc.

It can’t simply fall on only interns to sacrifice “because they are learning”.

That’s just bad policy. Lazy, crude policy actually.

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@karothk256 NRM chaps, always stealing public funds

[Simon M (M.D) @MonMills8572]

@IdiotsInCamera Politicians

[Mulindwa @mulindwa10]

I have worked to the best of my ability to attain a degree in medicine and surgery. I would like government to deploy me as medical interns so that I can progress in my career path without any further delays. See as we have already lost time. @GovUganda @NRMOnline @KagutaMuseveni