Police Intercepts Medical Interns Marching in Protest of Non-Deployment

Police from Wandegeya Police Station have on Wednesday morning, intercepted a group of pre-medical interns at Mulago National Referral Hospital  as they attempted to march to the ministries of Health and Finance, protesting their delayed deployment.

The medical interns earlier on Tuesday had issued a 24 hour ultimatum to provide them with deployment dates and release the deployment lists.
Over 2,000 interns, who finished their medical degrees a year ago, are still waiting to be assigned to positions, despite the original plan for deployment in April of this year.

If the government and the Ministry of Health fail to provide a satisfactory response, the interns have indicated their intention to hold demonstrations to draw attention to their grievances.

Spyreports has learned that the Permanent Secretary at Ministry of Health, Dr. Diana Atwine asked the pre-intern medical Doctors willing to be deployed at their own cost to apply online immediately for placement. This was during a meeting with the intern doctors on Tuesday  afternoon.