Stephen Odora

Live with gratitude ❤️| MBChB | Co-Founder & Chief of Operations @acholiwomen | Researcher |Chapter Coordinator @MedXMentor | Patriotic #Ugandan | #Luo son

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

As you get older, you start to understand the difference between friends and associates, family and blood, love and lust, want and need. And most of all what's important and what's not.

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

@DrAyumeCharles @ObothOboth @pwatchug @BaryomunsiChris
The plight of #MedicalInterns is a well a matter of national importance, through which the health of the citizens is being jeopardized by a purported move to enslave the #interns
#PayAllMedicalInterns #Revisethehealthpolicy

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

🔥 Please prioritize the medical interns!

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

Well highlighted, more are deep in the communities. A reason @acholiwomen was born and being launched on 11th July at @GuluVarsity .
Join and support us 🙏🏾

Together let's "Heal the Acholi communities and transform lives"
@BenOngomTweets

#RisinginHealth #RootedInCommunities

[NBS Television @nbstv]

In the last financial year, the Acholi sub-region had a total of 232 public-sector health facilities, including Gulu Regional Referral Hospital and Kitgum Hospital.

@BenOngomTweets

#NBSLiveAt9 #NBSUpdates

[NBS Television @nbstv]

In the last financial year, the Acholi sub-region had a total of 232 public-sector health facilities, including Gulu Regional Referral Hospital and Kitgum Hospital.

@BenOngomTweets

#NBSLiveAt9 #NBSUpdates

[Amito Luo pride @JoiceLuoPride]

The Official Launch of Acholi Women in Health Foundation (AWIHF)
Theme: Rooted in community,Raising in health, the AWIHF story

📍11th July 2026 | Gulu University library Hall

Fee;
-Students: 20K
-Health Professionals: 50K
#AWIHFLaunch  #RootedInCommunity  #RisingInHealth

[Dr. AJOK LUCKY @LuckyAjok]

Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

At Acholi Women in Health, we bring care directly to the communities that need it most.

Share if you believe every woman in Northern Uganda deserves quality healthcare now.

#RootedInCommunity #AcholiWomenInHealth #HealthEquity

[Amito Luo pride @JoiceLuoPride]

#AWIHFLaunch

[Dr. AJOK LUCKY @LuckyAjok]

Before the world shows up, someone's already been showing up.
Late nights. Community meetings. Vision so bold it scared people.
We have been at work quietly, faithfully, for you.
July 11 is almost here. 📍Gulu City
#AWIHFLaunch  #WomenWhoHeal

[Muleme Cyrus Ssekaddu @CyrusMuleme1]

@OdoraSteph @BahatungireR @faith_nabushawo @RubabindaJr @OfficialFUMSA @DailyMonitor @SpireJim #rejectthehealthpolicy

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

We welcome partnerships, Sponsorships and funders towards our launch and our projects.

Reach out: [email protected]

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

📢#TimeUntil The Official Launch of @acholiwomen at @GuluVarsity - Main Library where we shall unveil our strategic plan for the next 3 years 🔥

📌Confirm your presence today!

🤝🏾We also welcome your support as a partner/Sponsors🫶🏾

"Healing Communities, transforming lives"

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

Join us to address this critical gap in the post-war (Conflict) Acholi sub-region, a region that is grappling the transformation from war inflicted trauma to normal livelihoods and faced with many challenges highlighted below 👇🏾👇

[email protected] | [phone]

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

🚨Thread: The health realities women in Northern Uganda face that national statistics hide. 🧵👇🏾
1/ Maternal mortality in the Acholi sub-region is 106 per 100,000 nearly doubling the national rate
That's not a statistic. That's someone's mother.
July 11, we respond. #AWIHFLaunch

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

In his defense of the slavery policy, @BahatungireR kept referring to #NDPIV and how the country is shifting to specialist care! Contrarily, The #NDPIV identifies a critical gap of 12,111 #MedicalDoctors!

📌Without, interns this gap continues to widens
#rejectthehealthpolicy

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

@AchomEmily This will be way worse if #interns aren't facilitated!

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

💠Late nights. Community meetings. Bold visions from a team who refused to accept the status quo ✨

Behind every real movement is a team that builds quietly before the world shows up.

We're almost ready. July 11th will be unforgettable. 📍Gulu City

#AWIHFLaunch #Acholi

[FRNK Asiimwe @RubabindaJr]

Let talk about this Policy.
@TheUMAofficial,
@agnmu_Ug,
@OfficialFUMSA
@FUMI20232024
@PharmacistsUg
@faith_nabushawo

Tell a friend to tell a friend, to tune in.

The gloves will be off and words aren't going to be minced.

[Dr. Faith Nabushawo @faith_nabushawo]

What exactly makes the Ministry of Health (MOH) believe that only government sponsored medical interns deserve allowances, while self sponsored or privately funded interns doing exactly the same work, under the same conditions and supervisors, in the same hospitals, should receive nothing? 🤦‍♀️

After carefully reading through the entire Internship Policy framework, the recent circulars (including ADM.010/095/01), the National Education and Training for Health Policy 2025, and related Public Service Standing Orders, one thing is crystal clear 👉 this is a blatant case of unfair discrimination that undermines the principles of equity, natural justice, fair labour practices.

All interns regardless of how their undergraduate education was funded perform the same critical duties. They manage wards, handle emergencies, assist in surgeries, and form the backbone of service delivery in our public hospitals, often contributing up to 60% of the clinical workload. Yet the policy arbitrarily ties eligibility for the monthly allowance which they now call “support” (coz they dont want to commit on anything so they can always make it look like it’s at their mercy) to the sponsorship status during university. Shame 🚮

I urge those few government sponsored interns who might feel “safe” because they are being promised something not to be misled. This fight for better internship policies concerns every single one of us. 📌

The policy is deliberately vague even for those it claims to cover. It refuses to commit to a specific, guaranteed amount, timeline, or protection against future reductions or delays. There is no rock solid assuarance clause ensuring consistency or timely disbursement.

This ambiguity reveals the deeper truth 👉no one is safe. Today’s “privileged” group can easily become tomorrow’s excluded group once budget constraints or new circulars kick in.

We have witnessed government reduce reduced allowances from Shs2.5m to Shs1m, delayed payments repeatedly, and is pushing toward models where interns (reclassified as students) receive little to nothing.

We are not asking for charity. We are demanding recognition for the essential professional work we do during this mandatory year. A fair policy must provide 👇
📌Uniform allowances for all interns performing the same duties
📌Clear, ring-fenced funding with specific amounts
📌Timely deployment and payment
📌Protection against arbitrary exclusion based on sponsorship history

The current approach is not only unjust, it threatens the entire healthcare. This concerns the future of healthcare in Uganda. We must stand united. 📌

[Agather Atuhaire @AAgather]

our MPs during their induction were only concerned about the speed of approving their medical trips abroad, or whether they are allowed to travel with their spouses, etc..meanwhile the rest of the population that depends on medical interns isn’t their problem!

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

@niwamanyajuli @MutanogaA @NewtonAllan6 Just be grateful to your God and don't fall sick or get to a public facility like a RRH or NRH

[Makerere University Medical Students' Association @Makerere_Medics]

Intern doctors are not students.
Unpaid medical internship is modern-day slavery.
Hungry and angry interns are a danger to the patients.
The @MinofHealthUG should consider proper renumeration of ALL interns under the new National Education and Training for Health Policy.

[Dr. AJOK LUCKY @LuckyAjok]

IT'S ON. 🎉
⏳ 40 days until the launch Acholi women in health foundation,have been waiting for.

Bookmark this. Tell your clinic. Tell your community. Tell your organization
It’s time for partnership

Something real is coming.
#AWIHFLaunch  #RisingInHealth  #NorthernUganda

[Stephen Odora @OdoraSteph]

🚨The countdown is officially LIVE. 🎉

⏳ 40 days to the launch that Acholi women have been waiting for.

📌Bookmark this!. Tell your hospital. Tell your community. Tell your organization. Tell your district health office. 🏥

#AWIHFLaunch #RisingInHealth #NorthernUganda