The minister of state for Primary Health Care (PHC), Joyce Moriku Kaducu, has said all medical practitioners who are absent from work and are studying without permission should be fired.
Speaking to medical practitioners working at the China-Uganda Friendship hospital in Naguru, the minister was particularly angered by the number of missing staff who are back to school or doing different things without official permission. She ordered hospital authorities to forward all names of absentees to the ministry of Public Service so that they are struck off the payroll.
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