The director general of health services, Anthony Mbonye last month had announced that starting this year all medical interns were to be subjected to pre-entry exams before being allowed to work in any government hospital.

minister of state for health in-charge of general duties, Sarah Opendi.

The minister of state for health in-charge of general duties, Sarah Opendi says that government has realized it’s the university to subject these students to such exams when they were aware of them and hence has decided the exams will begin next year.
Opendi also told the parliamentary health committee that  medical interns refuse government plea for  each medical intern before being facilitated by government will have to sign a contract bonding him or her to work for government for two years before he or she can be allowed to work for private institutions.

Opendi also says that any student who wants to cancel his or her contract after realizing he or she has gotten better opportunities will have to pay government all the money they have spent training them.

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Acting director general duties in the health ministry, Prof. Anthony Mbonye.

According to the acting director general duties in the health ministry, Prof. Anthony Mbonye, the pre- entry exams will help sieve out the incompetent medical interns and not see the competent interns allowed to train at all government facilities who later will be taken on by government as full workers.

Prof. Mbonye adds that the country now chan out a huge number of medical practitioners who are sometimes not to the required standards and thus the need to have them examined before allowed to practice at any govt health facilities.

It should also be noted that the country has in the past week seen a series of demonstrations from intern medical students from Mulago and Gulu hospitals who claims that they have not been paid their allowance and yet they do the donkey work at these health facilities with the demonstrations paralyzing business at these health facilities.

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