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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