{"id":60317,"date":"2022-11-16T14:13:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T11:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=60317"},"modified":"2022-11-16T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T11:20:44","slug":"medical-interns-suspend-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/medical-interns-suspend-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical interns suspend strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mike Sebalu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under their umbrella body, Federation of Uganda Medical Interns (FUMI), medical interns have suspended their sit down strike which kicked off on November 6.<\/p>\n

The interns have been demanding payment of their allowances (two months) and implementation of President Museveni\u2019s directive to be paid half of the recommended pay of the fully appointed doctors.<\/p>\n

According to the Federation President Dr. Musa Lumumba, the 9-day sit down strike has seen at least 90 percent of internship sites\/ hospitals pay their respective interns.<\/p>\n

He, however, says\u00a0 10 hospitals including Kawempe national referral hospital, Bombo military hospital, Nsambya, Masaka, Gulu regional referral hospital among others are yet to pay their Interns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mike Sebalu\u00a0 Under their umbrella body, Federation of Uganda Medical Interns (FUMI), medical interns have suspended their sit down strike which kicked off on November 6. The interns have been demanding payment of their allowances (two months) and implementation of President Museveni\u2019s directive to be paid half of the recommended pay of the fully appointed doctors. According to the Federation President Dr. Musa Lumumba, the 9-day sit down strike has seen at least 90 percent of internship sites\/ hospitals pay their respective interns. He, however, says\u00a0 10 hospitals including Kawempe national referral hospital, Bombo military hospital, Nsambya, Masaka, Gulu regional referral hospital among others are yet to pay their Interns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":60063,"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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[902],"class_list":["post-60317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-medical-interns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60317"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}