The easy solution to this medical interns allowance is public perception issue.
If I were medical student, I wouldn't bother demanding for allowances from government at least for now.
I would swallow the bitter pill but push for one thing in return. That's for the Ministry of Health to stop referring to us as "medical interns" but rather "junior doctors."
The whole reason they're losing this war is because everyone thinks they're mere interns with no experience. Everyone thinks of them as ordinary interns who have no justification for the allowances they're getting from government that "interns" in other professions aren't entitled to.
Now after the name has been changed to "Junior Doctors", come back in part two and demand for that salary as junior doctors and not interns. You'll be surprised the number of people that will be in support.
But for now, the public thinks you're just like any other intern in their second year, and government is using that perception to its advantage to scrap off the allowance
The easy solution to this medical interns allowance is public perception issue.
If I were medical student, I wouldn't bother demanding for allowances from government at least for now.
I would swallow the bitter pill but push for one thing in return. That's for the Ministry of Health to stop referring to us as "medical interns" but rather "junior doctors."
The whole reason they're losing this war is because everyone thinks they're mere interns with no experience. Everyone thinks of them as ordinary interns who have no justification for the allowances they're getting from government that "interns" in other professions aren't entitled to.
Now after the name has been changed to "Junior Doctors", come back in part two and demand for that salary as junior doctors and not interns. You'll be surprised the number of people that will be in support.
But for now, the public thinks you're just like any other intern in their second year, and government is using that perception to its advantage to scrap off the allowance
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
Gov't can't find Ugx 24,000,000,000 to pay medical interns.
But,Chris Obore's communication&public affairs department @Parliament_ug has an annual budget of Ugx 21,849,000,000
Again, it's not about not paying interns,PRIORITIES.
#UgandaParliamentExhibitionII#PayMedicalInterns
I disagree with you. Our dear MPs need those cars urgently. Imagine meeting an MP on a boda. Who are doctors in this society anyway? We can do away with them. We can ask pastors to be deployed in hospitals instead. After all, they won’t need to be paid, it’ll be the patients paying tithe. Isn’t that better logic, bro?
While this seems acted, it is true that it is dangerous to put our lives in the hands of unpaid and demotivated medical interns. This is not just about them, it is a national health risk. There is a lot of money wasted on luxury, useless things and useless people. We can’t say we’ve failed to find money for overworked needy young people entrusted with citizens’ lives. A country that demotivates its health workers is a country that doesn’t value lives of its citizens.
#PayMedicalInterns
It's hard for me to explain to those outside #Uganda just how irritated the Ugandans are to be lumped in with DRC for the #Ebola epidemic. As of this writing, there have been hundreds of deaths and over 1000 cases in Congo, whereas Uganda has had only 9 cases -- three Congolese, four medical workers who treated them, one driver who drove them, and one other known contact. Only one person has died in Uganda, a Congolese.
So when WHO and Al Jazeera talks about the Ebola epidemic in "Congo and Uganda," it's like saying because there are wildfires in California, you should cancel a trip to the Grand Canyon because some Californians lit a campfire there. Yes, it is possible it *could* spread and you have to be vigilant, but these two situations are nowhere near the same magnitude.
As of this writing, the only Ugandan death has been the tourism industry.
Now that you’re all looking at my timeline for updates, let me use this chance to ask you kindly to retweet this shoe until it reaches the person in whose foot it fits!
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
My advice to the younger generation. Question every system. Marriage, education, employment, contemporary businesses,tax ,politics , police, law and order , religion, social dynamics . Dnt follow and obey blindly it doesn't work.