Thank you Hons. @CHRISBARYOMUNS1, @DrAyumeCharles & Director @DKyabayinze for meeting interns, this is what we've been waiting for.
Kindly PUT in WRITING declarations made on the floor of Parliament to WITHDRAW & REVIEW the NETH POLICY.
DEPLOY WITH PAY PLAN LIKE BEFORE.
Actually this is bigger than allowances. Uganda needs a *PERMANENT* solution to medical internship, not yearly uncertainty. Medical interns are not ordinary students. They are graduate doctors who provide frontline care and keep our hospitals running while completing supervised..
Uganda’s health system is being sustained by medical interns and SHOs working long hours in understaffed hospitals , on the frontline often under extreme pressure and without pay
The cost of ignoring this problem will ultimately be paid by patients
#PayAllMedicalInterns
“It should be noted that in 1995 the Hon.@CHRISBARYOMUNS1 led a strike for medical interns that lead to increase of the pay of medical interns from 90,000 UgX to 180,000 UgX.” Dr.Asiimwe R Frank.
Now he is the minister of health and defending the position of government not to pay medical interns