President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has stated that his government doesn’t have enough money to pay medical interns. The President proposed that to make the work easier, the person who has been sponsoring the medical student during the medical school should be the one to also sponsor their internship. “Who pays for the internship? Some people are saying that the government must pay but I think that is risky because the government would pay if it had money but it doesn’t have enough money since it has got a lot of things to do like roads, security etc.
I don’t think it is okay to tie the future of our young doctors with government funding because it may delay or it may not be there,” Museveni said. The President made the remarks at State House Entebbe while delivering a lecture of opportunity to 210 post-medical interns who had completed their 10-day patriotism and ideological training at the National Leadership Institute (NALI), Kyankwanzi. The President’s proposal comes at a time when a good number of medical interns are stuck over delay by the government to release funds for them to start their internship.
“Why don’t we agree that a person who has qualified as a medical doctor after five years in the medical school, continues with the internship but with sponsorship from the person who sponsored him in the first place? What is the problem? If someone was sponsoring you for five years, why does he stop now?,” Museveni said. He added that, “there’s another .