President Yoweri Museveni is meeting leaders of health workers in the country over the ongoing strike.

Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah said this during Tuesday's plenary session.

Health workers, including doctors, consultants, nurses, midwives, interns, and pharmacists are striking for a pay increase and the improvement on their welfare.

Today, their strike has entered the second day.

Oulanyah made the remarks after Nakawa West MP Joel Ssenyonyi raised the issue of the health worker's strike.

"It's an emergency; hospitals are flooded because there are no medical workers to attend to them. Medical workers have gone on strike because they have been promised severally," he said.

The chairperson of the parliamentary committee on health, Dr Charles Ayume called on the health workers two days ago to call off the strike, saying they had approved supplementary requests that included money for salary enhancement for intern doctors.

"I, therefore, advise the interns to call off their proposed strike," he said in a tweet.