Union asks nurses, midwives, to refrain from strike

NURSES | MIDWIVES | STRIKE 

KAMPALA - The president of Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union (UNMU), Justus Kiplangat, has asked the union members not to participate in the strike organised by Uganda Medical Association saying they should instead save lives.

Addressing a press conference at the Union headquarters in Mulago, Kiplangat urged the nurses and midwives to refrain from the strike.

The medical association is raising issues of salary increment, filling of vacant posts and compensation of health workers who died in line of duty.

Kiplangat however, agreed that the medical association concerns are valid but his union was not informed of the strike and therefore, would not participate.

The Union president said he received calls from various parties on the issue of the current strike organised by Uganda Medical Association telling his members to participate in the strike.

“The Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union wishes to request its members across the country to refrain and abstain from participating in the said strike. As Union we shall engage with government to raise our issues of the same nature as we have always done and we shall inform our members of outcomes of the engagement,” Kiplangat said.