President Yoweri Museveni yesterday met with Dr Samuel Oledo, the former President of the Uganda Medical Association at State House Entebbe.
The meeting on Tuesday came just a day after Dr Oledo was removed from the leadership of the association and handed a 4 year membership ban.
Dr Oledo had been accused breaking the association’s code of conduct when he openly begged President Museveni to contest in the 2026 elections, at youth event at Kololo early this month.
In yesterday’s meeting at State House, Dr Oledo clarified that it had been requested long before the Kololo saga within the association.
He added that the meeting was meant to discuss with the President the issues of deployment of doctors, the recruitment of workers and to improve the health sector as a whole which is now ongoing in the country.
“We thank you Your Excellency for the salary enhancement of the health workforce with the least paid being an enrolled nurse at certificate level who now earns Shs1.4 million from Shs600,000 and the interns from Shs700,000 to Shs2,500,000,” said Dr. Oledo.
Dr. Oledo also thanked Gen. Museveni for upgrading the General Hospitals to Regional Referral Hospitals and equipping the health facilities with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds and CT scans.
Dr. Oledo added that the meeting also reviewed some of the pledges made by President Museveni, citing the boosting of the health workers SACCO with Shs4 billion and to brief the President on the milestone the Medical Association has so far registered.
“Doctors should be happy that they will now have great transformation in the health sector,” Dr. Oledo observed.
