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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The Covid-19 frontline health workers, whose contracts were terminated by the Ministry of Health in March, have said they will only return if the government gives them permanent employment.
\nThe demand is coming amid rising numbers of Covid-19 infections in the country.
\nMs Bonietor Amanya, a former nursing officer at Mulago Hospital and the national mobiliser of the terminated workers, said they are willing to come back and work.
\n\u201cAs long as we are paid our arrears and absorbed into the main government system, then we can come back and work. We have the experience because we have handled the patients during the first and second wave,\u201d she told this publication yesterday.<\/p>\n

Background<\/b><\/p>\n

The workers were terminated on March 30 when they were still demanding their salary arrears amid the decline in Covid-19 cases in hospitals.
\n\u201cWe have contacted all the concerned offices. We wrote to the Ministry of Health, and we wrote to the President himself. We even wrote a petition to the Speaker of Parliament,\u201d Ms Amanya said.
\n\u201cIn July 2021, the President appreciated the work that was done by the frontline \u2013medical people that fought to make sure that Uganda is Covid-free. He gave a directive to the Ministry of Health to accord permanent jobs to the medical people that fought in the pandemic, unfortunately, Dr Diana Atwine [the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health], gave us termination as appreciation,\u201d she added.
\nMinistry responds<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Ministry of Health spokesperson, told this newspaper yesterday that the number of Covid-19 patients is still low and hospitals are managing without the terminated workers.
\n\u201cRecruiting more workers is the decision of the strategic committee chaired by the minister, so I cannot comment [about it],\u201d he said, when asked about their plans in case Covid-19 hospitalisation increases.
\nAbout the patients<\/b><\/p>\n

According to the Ministry of Health statistics, only six Covid-19 patients are currently hospitalised amid the rising infections. One death was reported by the ministry yesterday.
\nA total of 3,601 have died out of the 166,237 people who have contracted the virus since the outbreak of the virus in 2020.<\/p>\n

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