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Uganda: Doctors Reject Plans to Import Cuba Medics
Monitor, 5 December 2017
Doctors under Uganda Medical Association (UMA) have criticised the government plan to import Cuban medical experts, equating the move to "treason". Read more »
The government is considering a health ministry plan to bring in 200 Cuban doctors and to hire retired Ugandan medical professors to plug manpower gaps. The Daily Monitor reports that the proposal was discussed by Cabinet at the height of industrial action by local doctors.
Dr Ekwaro Obuku, left, the Uganda Medical Association president, addresses doctors and journalists at the Davis Lecture Theatre at Mulago hospital in Kampala (file photo).
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