Police has kicked off the week with a busy Monday morning with attempts to curb protests by medical interns that are demanding for deployment by the government.
A considerable number of pre-medical interns who had this morning organized a peaceful march to the president’s office protesting their delayed deployment have been arrested from the College of Health Sciences, Mulago before they could set off.
Medical Interns, SHOs and Medical Students are holding nationwide peaceful demonstrations. This comes at a time when government has delayed to deploy medical interns & planned not to pay their allowances incase deployed.
It is alleged that top government officials will today meet to discuss the delayed deployment of medical interns.
This comes almost a month after pre-medical interns were involved in running battles with police as they held a demonstration in Kampala City over the Health Ministry’s failure to deploy them to government hospitals to attain training for their respective medical programmes.
The government has since responded through the director general of Health Services, Dr Henry Mwebesa who said that the one-year training would begin after certain important issues were ironed out.
