Mulago National Referral Hospital executive director, Dr Baterana Byarugaba has criticisied the ongoing strike by medical interns at the facility.
The disgruntled interns last week laid down their tools over non-payment of their three-month allowance arrears but the hospital’s bosses had finished the process of securing from the from the ministry of Health interns’ a net monthly pay of Shs600,000 for atleast two months to cater for their accommodation, transport and meals.
Dr Baterana said; “It is not a good thing that students went ahead to strike despite the earlier agreement to have them cleared soon.”
“We shall keep talking to them.”
The interns are usually assigned to work as auxiliary staff in each of the wards which include the obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics’, surgery, general medicine, causality ward for accident and Emergency ward.
Six months back, there was another a strike when the prospective doctors in different government hospitals protested against the government’s proposal to scrap the allowance it gives them for their one-year attachment.
