Public Service Minister Muruli Mukasa’s announcement that government would increase the payments of civil servants and that they should return to work, may not be the ultimate answer to the doctors’ demands.
The President of the Uganda Medical Association Dr Ekwaro Obuku said there are more demands to be met.
He says the issue of supplies and the issue of senior house officers has not been met and insists that these are easy to meet, and the government should ensure that they meet them.
At his press conference on Monday, Mr Mukasa said the government had decided to raise the salaries of most of its civil servants.
He, however, did not mention any figures as per the demand of the doctors and other civil servants.
Dr Obuku says they will give cabinet a benefit of doubt, and wait for it to meet its promises.
Last month, a leaked salary review report showed that remuneration for medical workers would be increased, with the starting salary for a medical doctor put at five million shillings.
It is not only the doctors agitating for increments in remuneration.
Just yesterday, state prosecutors called off their strike that lasted more than two months.
Also, teachers have frequently protested over the government’s failure to raise their salaries.