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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Yoweri Museveni has urged striking frontline medical workers to return to work and wait for their \u201cbanked allowances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the issue is hazard allowances, not salaries\u2026.Those doctors should not slow down. These people are keeping your money in the bank,\u201d he said June 25 while presiding virtually held national prayers for soaring Covid-19 cases and fatalities.<\/p>\n

Medical workers placed in Covid-19 epicenters in some parts of the country recently protested over lack of medical supplies like PPEs and non-payment of their allowances from October 2020 to June 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hazard allowances will be paid later,\u201d Mr Museveni disclosed at State House Entebbe.<\/p>\n

Asked by Mr Museveni to explain issues revolving around grievances of medical workers, Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary (PS) Diana Atwine said: \u201cLast year we received one batch of risk allowances for doctors which we paid.\u201d<\/p>\n

PS Atwine, without certainly specifying the actual time and the amount available to meet the medical workers’ allowance budget- emphasized government\u2019s position on the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, we sat with the finance ministry and they allowed us to use some money that was stipulated for something else and we shall use it to pay them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Amidst surging Covid-19 cases and related fatalities, Mr Museveni said the nation is \u2018simply\u2019 paying the price for individual-recklessness in dealing with the contagion.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with carelessness, 830 people have died in the last one and a half years. We warned you about the virus but people don\u2019t listen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Uganda on June 25 also recorded 1, 025 new Covid-19 cases as its cumulative infection tally since the outbreak hit 76, 562.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018Whatever man sows is what he reaps. We\u2019re not using the superior knowledge that God gave us. Science is about understanding the work of God. This crisis was caused by not listening to God\u2019s command in the Genesis – to establish dominion over nature and creation,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

Through his speech that centered on biblical summons, Mr Museveni rebuked advocates of religious congregation in prayer and worship hubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a crisis like this comes and we die, what example are religious denominations showing. We cannot only say pray, pray without any effort, I reject that. If I was still active in the church, I would have started my science-led church,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Essential workers<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr Museveni said Covid-19 was highly conquerable only if the right things were done, adding that health authorities should review the criteria of accrediting essential workers during the 42-day lockdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue should not be who is important but who is much more needed in a situation of an emergency or crisis like this one. The whole strategy of defeating Covid-19 is in reducing the numbers,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have testimonies that show things done 2,000 years ago like social distancing were a successful solution in fighting diseases like epilepsy,\u201d Mr Museveni explained before he again hinted at the possibility of having Uganda-made therapeutics in \u201ca few weeks\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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