More health workers to be recruited

The government of Uganda is planning of recruit a total of 6174 health workers who will include Doctors, Theatre staff, Nursing Assistant and Enrolling Midwives nursing Assistants at Health centers 3s and Health center 4s.

This comes after parliament approved 39 billion out of 260 billion including the salary enhancement and recruitment of Health workers country wide.

This has been revealed by the Commissioner for clinical health Services Jacinta Amandwa during a consultative meeting with the district Health Officers, Chief Administrative Officers Secretaries for Health on recruitment of Health workers at common wealth Speke resort Munyonyo.

Amandwa says they are going to focus on district which are very far and also in remote areas, he adds that lack enough manpower in the health sector has affected so much this sector and the exercise is likely to kick off  Friday this week till Monday.

He says the medical staffs mentioned and approved by the Uganda Medical Service bureau and Uganda Medical commission are the only ones going to be recruitment country wide.

The consultative meetings aims at finalizing the district recruitment plans for Health center 4s and Health center 3s and agree on the next steps and timeliness for the recruitment process.

 

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