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[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

World's youngest monarch dies in Uganda, aged 34 https://t.co/QSH21B9heS

[Joel Ssenyonyi @JoelSsenyonyi]

Finally, Govt’ has acknowledged that all medical interns require facilitation, and is now going to reinstate the 1m allowance per month to each medical intern.

However, going forward, there ought to be a discussion on increasing the 1m, given the rising cost of living and inflation over the years.

#KeepingTheGovtInCheck

[davidkoojo @david_koojo]

@JoelSsenyonyi The streets will never forget your work on this

[Simon Kaggwa Njala @SimonKaggwaNjal]

#Njalazmusings: If government doesn’t have money for medical interns, let them be posted and allowed to charge patients. The same way traffic cops do it.

[Robert Kalyesubula,MD, FISN(USA), PhD-FRCP(London) @rkalyes1]

🔥 This is the young doctor (Allan Okwi) who organized the @FUMI_org sports gala recently !

🔥 It is so sad that he is now in jail.
What a tough time!

🔥 We can surely do better! We hope that they get released soon!

[Galaxy TV Jikonkone @GalaxyTVUg]

UPDATE: 8 medical interns arrested along Parliamentary Avenue while protesting delayed deployment & unpaid stipends have been charged at Buganda Road Court!

They’ve been sent straight to Luzira over charges of being a public nuisance!

#GalaxyTVNews

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

Eight medical interns remanded to Luzira over Parliamentary Avenue protest.
The group appeared before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court on Friday and were charged with allegedly causing danger and inconvenience to traffic #MonitorUpdates https://t.co/WUTuH0CeSH

[Winnie Byanyima @Winnie_Byanyima]

How can our young doctors, peacefully seeking to petition Parliament, the House of the People, end up in prison?

Why has the NRM government become so intolerant of peaceful dissent?

Why does the judiciary keep enabling this repression instead of defending citizens’ constitutional rights?

Young doctors asking to be heard are not criminals. Release the medical interns. Listen to them.
@KagutaMuseveni
@JudiciaryUG
@UMIUOfficial
@TheUMAofficial

[The New Vision @newvisionwire]

Pharmacists have petitioned the Ministry of Health to withdraw a directive requiring medical interns to report to their assigned health facilities by August 14 or risk losing their internship placements.

#VisionUpdates
https://t.co/k5B1kMBc6k

[Nile Post @nilepostnews]

Medical Interns Reject Government Deadline, Refuse to Report Over Welfare Concerns

#NilePostNews

https://t.co/gmDuc2OmwR

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

Doctors give govt 14-day ultimatum over intern deployment, welfare.
https://t.co/5JJqefvmW6
#MonitorUpdates

[Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda @PharmacistsUg]

📢 PSU has written to the Hon. Minister of Health raising urgent concerns about medical interns welfare and pharmacist recruitment. Key requests: facilitation to report, allowance increase from UGX 1M to 2.5M, rescission of the report-or-forfeit directive & prioritization of pharmacist recruitment in public health facilities. Full details in the notice below. 💊🇺🇬 #PharmacyUganda #PSU #InternPharmacists

[Prof. V Baryamureeba @baryamureeba]

Let all media houses make medical interns issue the only issue.. It is possible. We just have to keep the pressure on Parliament and the Executive.

[Uganda Medical Association @TheUMAofficial]

Thank you!

[Uganda Medical Association @TheUMAofficial]

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

[Dr.Anyama Alfred Berliner @DrBerlinerMD]

It beats my understanding how @JoelSsenyonyi ,a non- medic seems to understand the plight of medical interns better than @CHRISBARYOMUNS1, who once led a strike as a medical intern demanding that allowances be increased from UGX 90,000 to UGX 180,000.

Today,@CHRISBARYOMUNS1 appears totally unbothered, defending the government’s position not to pay medical interns.

What changed?

#PayAllMedicalInterns

[Parliament of Uganda @Parliament_Ug]

The Leader of Opposition, Hon. @JoelSsenyonyi has been consistent on the welfare of medical interns. He is back on the floor over the same matter. #PlenaryUg

[Joel Ssenyonyi @JoelSsenyonyi]

Medical interns ought to be paid their monthly allowance!

#KeepingTheGovtInCheck

[Robert Kalyesubula,MD, FISN(USA), PhD-FRCP(London) @rkalyes1]

🔥 This is turning bad!

[Prof. V Baryamureeba @baryamureeba]

Send this to the Health Minister...