Uganda: Wauguzi na Wakunga waanza mgomo kisa maslahi duni

JanguKamaJangu · 2022-05-26T07:56:48+00:00

Umoja wa Wauguzi na Wakunga wa Uganda (UNMU) umetangaza kuanza mgomo kuanzia leo Mei 26, 2022 kutokana na malipo duni, ikiwa na maana wanaungana na wataalam wa afya wengine walioanzisha mgomo tangu Mei 16, 2022. Rais wa UNMU, Justus Cherop Kiplangat amesema amefikia maamuzi hayo kutokana na Serikali kuwapuuzia, pia wamekataa kutii barua ya Wizara ya Afya iliyowataka wasitishe mpango huo. “Barua haikueleza waufuzi watalipwa kiasi gani, inaeleza tu wataboresha mshahara, haitupi matumaini, tunataka kujua watalipa shiringi ngapi. Madaktari wameshaanza kulipwa, walimu wa Sayansi wamepewa,” anasema Kiplangat. Amesema muuguzi mwenye shahada analipwa Shs. 2m, daktari wa kawaida mwenye shahada analipwa Shs4m, hali ambayo inaonesha wauguzi hawajaliwi licha ya wote kusoma muda mmoja. Mr Cherop amesema wauguzi wapewe Shs4.8m na madaktari wa kawaida wapewe Shs5m. Source: KFM Nurses start strike today Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union (UNMU) has announced that its members will start a strike today over low pay, joining thousands of allied health professionals who started theirs on May 16. Mr Justus Cherop Kiplangat, the UNMU president, yesterday told Daily Monitor that they embarked on this because the government is undermining them. “There is industrial action beginning from tomorrow (today). We have rejected the letter from the Ministry of Public Service asking us to halt the planned industrial action,” he said. “It [the letter] was not telling how much nurses are going to earn. It was just saying ‘we shall enhance salary’, so it doesn’t give us hope. We want to know how much they plan to enhance our salary. Doctors have been given already, the science teachers were given, so nurses are not aware of how much they will be given,” he said. In a May 16 letter to UNMU, the Minister of Public Service, Mr Wilson Mukasa Muruli, had appealed to the nurses to halt the planned strike. “This is to inform you that Cabinet directed enhancement of salaries of health professionals and scientists in the Financial Year 2022/2023. Accordingly, funds have been provided in the budget for FY 2022/2023 and salaries for all health professionals, including nurses, midwives and allied health professionals will be enhanced effective 1st July 2022,” the minister wrote. Mr Cherop had told this newspaper earlier that the issue of salary disparity is of continuing concern to UNMU. He said a nurse with a degree gets Shs2m and a medical doctor with a degree gets around Shs4m, the amounts he said send signals that nurses are not valued even when they spend around the same period in school to obtain a degree. Mr Cherop said they need the salary for nurses with degrees to be increased from Shs2m to Shs4.8m as doctors get Shs5m in the next financial year. Their strike is at a time when thousands of allied health professionals have laid down their tools over low pay and poor working conditions. The World Health Organisation and the Heath ministry said the strike is having a devastating effect on the the healthcare. Ms Catherine Bitarakwate, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Service, told this publication earlier that Shs400b has been earmarked for enhancing the salaries of scientists and all health workers. She, however, said the ministry is yet to announce the final salary structure. Workforce There are around 27,000 nurses employed by the government, a number the UNMU says is way too low compared to the current population that needs medical care. The country has more than 120,000 nurses, many of them serving in private facilities or unemployed.

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Start date May 26, 2022
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