{"id":49239,"date":"2023-05-14T21:58:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T21:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike"},"modified":"2023-05-14T23:05:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:05:35","slug":"nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike","title":{"rendered":"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>A meeting held on Thursday between striking doctors and government officials failed to resolve a pay dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Specialised doctors want their pay raised to Shs11 million whereas the Senior House Officers (SHO), and qualified doctors, training to become specialists, are striking over arrears of four to six months.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Herbert Luswata, the Secretary of Uganda Doctor Association, told Sunday Monitor on Friday that the meeting, which was chaired by Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja and attended by Ministry of Health and Ministry of Public Service officials, did not yield anything.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Luswata said their main issues concerning money were not addressed but instead worse suggestions came up.<\/p>\n<p>He said the prime minister insisted that the government has no budget to resolve the salary dispute and no promises would be made. She instead asked them to go back to work as negotiations continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from agreeing that they change the name of the medical officer\u2019s special grade to associate consultant. The main issues which concern money were not addressed,\u201d Dr Luswata said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that on the issue of interns, the OPM said they reached a decision with university vice chancellors and deans that government only pays allowances to government students and the private students continue to sponsor their own internship, which doctors rejected saying its discriminatory. He vowed that the strike would continue.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Ministry of Health senior public relations officer, said dialogue is the best way to resolve any issues and that Cabinet is set to decide on the doctors\u2019 pending issues on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. A meeting held on Thursday between striking doctors and government officials failed to resolve a pay dispute. Specialised doctors want their pay raised to Shs11 million whereas the Senior House Officers (SHO), and qualified doctors, training to become specialists, are striking over arrears of four to six months. Dr Herbert Luswata, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-49239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A meeting held on Thursday between striking doctors and government officials failed to resolve a pay dispute. Specialis ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A meeting held on Thursday between striking doctors and government officials failed to resolve a pay dispute. Specialis ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-14T21:58:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-14T23:05:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"688\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-14T21:58:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-14T23:05:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike\"},\"wordCount\":277,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike\",\"name\":\"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike - Uganda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-14T21:58:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-14T23:05:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"A meeting held on Thursday between striking doctors and government officials failed to resolve a pay dispute. Specialis ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":688,\"caption\":\"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/\",\"name\":\"Uganda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike - Uganda","description":"A meeting held on Thursday between striking doctors and government officials failed to resolve a pay dispute. Specialis ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike","og_description":"A meeting held on Thursday between striking doctors and government officials failed to resolve a pay dispute. Specialis ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike","og_site_name":"Uganda","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-05-14T21:58:40+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-05-14T23:05:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":688,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike","datePublished":"2023-05-14T21:58:40+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-14T23:05:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike"},"wordCount":277,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Uganda","uganda"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike","name":"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike - Uganda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg","datePublished":"2023-05-14T21:58:40+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-14T23:05:35+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"A meeting held on Thursday between striking doctors and government officials failed to resolve a pay dispute. Specialis ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684088924.53.jpg","width":1024,"height":688,"caption":"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nabbanja-meet-fails-to-end-doctors-strike#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nabbanja meet fails to end doctors\u2019 strike"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/","name":"Uganda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}