The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has urged all their members across the country who had laid down their tools to report back to work tomorrow Thursday.
The call was made by Dr. Samuel Oledo the association’s President while addressing journalists on Wednesday morning. Dr. Oledo argued that government has finally committed to handling their grievances which include low pay, under staffing, compensating families of those that died of COVID-19 as well as restocking drugs and sundries.
The UMA President further noted that doctors will receive their enhanced salary of 5million Shillings in July when the new financial year starts.
Adding that the government has also committed to consider getting them duty free vehicles and that it is now putting together members of the taskforce to handle issues of compensation.
The Association has already submitted names of seven members to sit on this committee and these will be representing and negotiating for families of the 85 health workers that died, of whom 35 were medical doctors.
The doctors went on strike 29 days ago with threats of not bending to any promises but actual actions from government considering that especially the issue of salary enhancement had been pending since 2017.