The Federation of Uganda Medical Interns (FUMI) allied with the Uganda Medical Association have instructed the Legal Aid Clinic of the Centre for Health, Human Rights & Development (CEHURD) to sue the Director General of Health Services, Dr. Henry G. Mwebesa and in extension, the Ministry of Health.
This move comes after a heated altercation between the aggrieved interns and the Ministry of Health wherewith the medical interns have been disgruntled by the low allowances at UGX 750,000, which they allege are peanuts when juxtaposed with their expenditure while supplementing the mainstream medical labour force in the country.
The Medical interns have further been dissatisfied with the way their plight has been habitually, taken lightly, and yet they play a pivotal role in the provision of health services in the country. In response to the interns’ strike, the Director General of Medical Services had ordered all interns on strike to vacate the hospital premises.
In a letter served to the Office of the Director General of Health Services, the CEHURD Legal Aid Clinic, counsel for the aggrieved interns, intimated that the Director General’s Directive to vacate hospital premises was unconstitutional, wanton and unacceptable in a free and democratic society.
They further implored the Director General to retract that directive within two days or be sued in the courts of law. We’ll be bringing these developments to you, as and when they unfold.
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