Medical students, in solidarity, reject the entire health policy, which undermines the importance and status of medical interns.
Protect the doctors, protect the patients, protect the health system.
#rejectthehealthpolicy
Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council was not consulted.
Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda was not consulted.
Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council (Not sure)?
Uganda Medical Association was not consulted.
Dental Surgeons Association was not consulted.
University Deans, Vice Chancellors, not consulted.
Question: Who did they consult to come up with this policy? π€
As a Senior Consultant, the reason I haven't raised my voice is simple:
When the interns are gone, I will gladly show up at 5AM, clerk 80 patients, draw the blood, and run the night calls myself.
I am superhuman. Obviously.
As a Senior Nursing Officer, the reason I am silent is obvious:
I have no problem running three wards alone, fixing lines, tracking vitals, delivering babies, doing the paperwork.
I don't need hands. I have dedication.
As a Policymaker, the reason I haven't spoken is elegant:
The interns are a budget problem I solved by terming the students.
My children are not doing internship in Uganda, after all.
As a Patient, the reason I haven't complained is clear:
Even if the doctor cutting me open has worked 36 hours without food, just cut me open and take the baby out.
Hunger sharpens the hands. Everyone knows this.
As a Citizen, the reason I am unbothered is rational:
None of my children is a medic.
I have my pastor.
The system runs on miracles. Always has.
This policy is brilliant.
Let's all stay quiet and watch the magic happen.
As we fight with MoH, a group of individuals from other professions feel entitled to have a negative opinion about this whole medical internship! It's with due respect that we ask you to *uninvolve yourselves* in these matters if they don't make sense.
#PayAllMedicalInterns
Medical students do 3 years of class room work and 2 years of hospital placement.."wat arts call internship" (I have been in 3 western regional referral hospitals)
Medical intern is a qualified doctor supervised to treats patients
Medical intern is not a student.@MinofHealthUG
Today I wrote my very last paper for MBChB a course whose journey I started 5 years ago.
A casual observer will suppose that I am extremely happy and excited about the journey that I have just accomplished but thatβs not the case.
I am now in the position of uncertainty just like my predecessors!!!
Every year the @MinofHealthUG has time and again frustrated young medical doctors by putting up barricades to their progress. These barricades have always been circulating around deployment and payment of medical interns.
They have played it so well to the point that they have always been successful on every strike and this has been very detrimental to the livelihoods and progress of young health practitioners.
Today; young doctors are getting much more disinterested in practicing because of these barricades which is dangerous for our country that is still struggling with achieving the Doctor to Patient ratio of 1:1,000.
We call upon all stakeholders in focal positions of this country to look into this matter and object it because it doesnβt differ from a terrorism attack or an epidemic onto the health standards of the people of Uganda. πΊπ¬ @mkainerugaba@BalaamBarugahar@Plumedia1
We call upon all human rights defenders to look into this matter because it doesnβt differ much from modern day slavery. @AAgather
Lastly we call upon the public to join us and deny this inhumane internship policy. @UOXUganda
#PayAllMedicalInterns #SaveLives