The leadership of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA), has condemned their president Dr. Samuel Oledo for kneeling before President Yoweri Museveni following salary increments for health workers.
The incident happened on Saturday last week at the Youth Patriotism Symposium where Oledo went on his knees praising the president for honoring part of his pledge to raise doctors' salaries.
Your Excellency, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, you have been the engine behind the improved welfare of health workers. Right now, the least paid health worker earns Shs.1.4 million from shs600,000,” — Oledo said
Oledo has since been called out by his colleagues for prostrating before the President. UMA released a statement on Sunday accusing their leader of playing partisan politics, before distancing itself from his remarks.
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In the statement released by the vice president Dr. Edith Nakku, they state that the organization doesn't engage in politics and that the body doesn't in any way approve of Oledo''s actions.
"Uganda Medical Association doesn’t participate in political activities of a partisan nature. UMA respects, honors and is committed to service to its members and to the public as an association of professionals promulgated under the laws of Uganda,” — the statement reads in part
It further states that the body will convene a meeting to address the matter internally. UMA said they are going to handle the issue internally within their organization.
“UMA serves to keep calm as our internal systems handled this matter with the utmost care and trust the medical doctors and the people we serve have given us" — it reads further
