The Vice President of Uganda Jessica Alupo has said that cabinet will address the challenges faced by medical Interns including allowances.
Alupo made the remarks while representing President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni during the closure of two weeks ideological skills course for Post medical Interns held at Kyankwanzi Leadership Institute.
Alupo who thanked the trainees for grasping and demonstrating the acquired skills perfectly told the Interns that cabinet would address the issue of interns’ allowances, noting further, that the President has instructed the Health Ministry to prepare a comprehensive cabinet paper to that effect.
Medical Interns have in the recent weeks put the government on spot for failure to deploy them and paying their allowances.
President Museveni in his speech read by Alupo also said that ideological training is important because it helps medical Interns make a correct diagnosis of the challenges facing society and prescribe the appropriate cure for them.
The ideological leadership development course followed requests by the post medical Interns totter understanding and appreciate the country’s social economic and political realities.
Museveni said the National Resistance Movement was able to identify ten bottlenecks to Uganda’s development.
These include: Ideological disorientation; weak State, especially the Army; Under-developed infrastructure, underdevelopment of the human resource,Interfering with the private sector, a fragmented African market on account of colonialism; exporting unprocessed raw materials and, therefore, getting little money and losing jobs- caused by lack of industrialization, the attack on democracy among others.
Museveni explained that after many years of a peaceful and armed struggle and analysis, the NRM evolved four principles to address the above challenges which include:-Patriotism, non-sectarianism, Pan-Africanism (working for the Federation of East Africa and beyond) as well as the Common Market of Africa in order to guarantee greater prosperity and strategic security.
He explained that understanding these bottlenecks and the principled solutions that the NRM government has adopted to address them will enable medical Interns make a meaningful contribution to the socio-economic transformation of our country.
NALI Director Brig. Charles Kisembo asked Government to improve the state of Bukwiri-NALI road.
Dr. Musa Lumumba, the President of the Medical Interns said that NALI has enlightened and shaped them to become goal oriented health professionals, problem solvers and not lamenters.
The interns committed to prevent sickness and promote health in their respective communities by ensuring that citizens have access to doctors, graduate clinical officers and graduate Nurses and midwives so as to address doctor to patient ratio.
