Uganda: 4,000 Medics Shun Jobs

20 February 2013

Over 4,000 health workers have turned down their government appointments at health centre IIIs and IVs, citing poor remuneration, lack of accommodation and poor working conditions, state minister for general duties in the health ministry has said

Appearing before the parliamentary committee of health yesterday, Kataike said: "As of February 15, only 1,393 health workers had reported for duty out of the 10,231 vacancies advertised. A total of 5,713 health workers were offered jobs, so we still have 4,518 jobs to fill."

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