The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has suspended its president Dr Samuel Oledo, whom it accuses of breaking its code through his association with the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.
The medical association yesterday convened an extraordinary General Assembly in which members voted to suspend Dr Oledo’s membership in the association for the next 4 years
The meeting also elected the Vice President Dr. Edith Nakku Joloba as the new President for the remaining term of office.
Dr Oledo angered members of the association when he led a few dozen health workers in begging president Yoweri Museveni to contest again in the 2026 elections.
In a youth event held on December 3rd at the Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala, Dr Oledo and his group knelt on the ground while pleading with the president.
The UMA in a subsequent statement, accused their president of misrepresenting the association, which is supposed to be apolitical in its operations.
These noted that Oledo’s colleagues at the Kololo event were merely “medical students and nurses; persons who did not represent U.M.A NEC or U.M.A at that meeting”
“Uganda Medical Association dissociates itself from any and all partisan political actions or acts, and is constitutionally required to do so. U.M.A is committed to remain neutral to and to serve all Ugandan doctors and persons from all the political dispensations of, and in Uganda and globally.” The statement read in part.
In response, Dr Oledo said as a known registered member of the NRM party, his comments at Kololo were his personal views, even through he was dressed in Doctors uniform.
