@Sudhirntv@gadkans Does hons @CHRISBARYOMUNS1 and @JaneRuth_Aceng have relatives who will be operated by intern Drs suffering from depression due to no rent, no food, no airtime to consult specialists, no transport etc?
We need to applaud our leaders when they get it right. So Thank you Your Grace! Btw, WHY CAN'T GOVERNMENT PAY ITS INTERN DOCTORS? I have been trying to understand it clearly: Why can't Government find money to pay a few thousand intern doctors? WHAT IS THE LOGIC? Because it is not the money as the Archbishop correctly points out. If you have Shs 200bn to spend on cars for People, many, who even FAILED THE ARTS you are refusing to pay for now, how can you FAIL TO FIND just Shs 28bn for 2000 INTERN DOCTORS?
WHAT IS THE LOGIC? Refusing to pay ARTS TEACHERS and you Pay SCIENCE TEACHERS MORE, produce the SCIENTISTS AT THE UNIVERSITY, then refuse to pay THESE SCIENTISTS, BUT INSTEAD PAY THE ARTISTS, even HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS(MPs) with Shs200bn FREE CARS? BTW, WHY DO WE GIVE FREE CARS TO MPs WHO EARN SHS 50 MILLION PER MONTH? WE WHO STRUGGLED WITH BLOOD AND SWEAT, AND THOUSANDS DIED TO BRING ABOUT THAT PARLIAMENT; THEY DON'T BUY CARS FOR US; AND WE DON'T DEMAND! We buy our own Cars. And those who can't, THEY USE TAXIS! So what is it with these POLITICAL FREELOADERS?
Here is my take: Either the People in charge are SUBVERSIVE; ie, silent enemies of the State, or they are extremely ignorant and incompetent! So, which is which? The GOVERNMENT has placed SCIENCE STUDY at the centre of the EDUCATION SYSTEM. I hear the President drumming it up daily. They even increased Salaries of Science teachers tenfold, and abandoned Arts teachers, etc. And in this endeavour, many young people are taking Science subjects: Medicine; Engineering; Food Science; AI, Environmental Science, etc.
Take THESE INTERNS/Doctors. The biggest field, perhaps second to ARITIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE(AI) today is BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY. There is so much going on in these areas which deal with the application of BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND ORGANISMS to make and use things like VACCINES, GENE THERAPY,etc, which are central in the quest for DISEASE ERADICATION. The Bridging of the gap between LABORATORY RESEARCH and PATIENT CARE is now the bedrock of GLOBAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS. So why would government not support people who are key in such fields; i ask again, WHAT IS THE LOGIC?
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Uganda Govt owes medical interns UGX 23bn. Yet by July,l 2026, UGX 189bn will go to MPs' cars & UGX 120bn to ministers' cars. Some political class doesn't use public hospitals; so they don't feel this crisis. My ailing auntie in Kyemamba does. #PayMedicalInterns#InternsNotSlaves
“The medical interns are too many”.
Uganda currently has 8 National Referrals and 16 Regional Referral Hospitals
Averagely, the government deploys about 2,100 interns a year.
These numbers are not even enough to cover the 16 regional referral hospitals.
We haven’t even talked about the 8 NRH which would take more that half of the already existing numbers
So what does this mean.
In practice, the intern does 36-72 hrs of shift nonstop to cover up for the gaps/shifts which gap is made worse when one is sick or on leave.
The government getting cheap labor while overworking the interns is already a bigger risk and saying they won’t be paid is left for one to wonder what exactly will happen.
The doctors to close the Doctor: Patient Ratio gap from 1:25,000 down to 1:1,000 are now there, let's not drop the ball by mishandling this gain.
@TheUMAofficial, will not look by as @MinofHealthUG fumbles with our gold.
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