Uganda: Investing in Human Resource for Health Is Economically Productive

23 November 2016
opinion

On August 13, during the 1st Grande Doctors' Conference and Fellowship Dinner at Imperial Royale Hotel, the chief guest President Museveni put it clearly that deployed senior house officers offer a national service and should be paid; otherwise it is "modern day slavery".

Senior house officers are the specialist doctors in apprenticeship including obstetricians who save lives of mothers and babies with pregnancy problems; orthopedic surgeons who fix broken bones after crash accidents such as those on Masaka road; paediatricians who handle complicated cases of childhood diabetes and asthma; as well as internists who control complications of blood pressure such as kidney failure and treat cancers too.

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