{"id":32116,"date":"2017-11-07T06:18:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32116"},"modified":"2017-11-07T06:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:18:30","slug":"dp-puts-doctors-strike-on-governments-poor-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/dp-puts-doctors-strike-on-governments-poor-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"DP puts doctor&#8217;s strike on government&#8217;s  poor planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Damali Mukhaye.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party has blamed the doctor\u2019s strike on government\u2019s poor planning.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition party\u2019s Vice President Fred Mukasa Mbidde says the government only increases salaries of public servants who have gone on strike instead of initiating periodic salary increments across the board.<\/p>\n<p>He adds that the strike signals a serious national crisis which government must address urgently to enable the doctors return to work.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association yesterday resolved to lay down their tools over poor pay and poor working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Among their demands is that government reviews their salaries so that an intern doctor earns Shs8.5m as opposed to the current Shs 960,000.<\/p>\n<p>They also propose that a senior consultant doctor becomes the highest paid health worker with a gross salary of Shs48m plus allowances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Damali Mukhaye. The Democratic Party has blamed the doctor\u2019s strike on government\u2019s poor planning. The opposition party\u2019s Vice President Fred Mukasa Mbidde says the government only increases salaries of public servants who have gone on strike instead of initiating periodic salary increments across the board. He adds that the strike signals a serious national crisis which government must address urgently to enable the doctors return to work. Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association yesterday resolved to lay down their tools over poor pay and poor working conditions. Among their demands is that government reviews their salaries so that an intern doctor earns Shs8.5m as opposed to the current Shs 960,000. They also propose that a senior consultant doctor becomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}