Parliamentary health committee

Government postpones pre-entry exams for medical interns.

Government postpones  pre-entry exams for medical interns.

Government has postponed pre-entry exams of medical interns who intend to work with government. 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.   The minister of state for […]

Health committee plans to make Heart and Cancer Institutes autonomous

Health committee plans to make Heart and Cancer Institutes autonomous

The parliamentary health committee has vowed to push for the independence of both Heart and Cancer Institutes. The committee is currently scrutinizing the Cancer Institute and Heart Institute Bills that will facilitate total autonomy of these two institutes. Speaking to media yesterday, the committee chairman Dr. Medard Bitekyerezo said in the remaining three months the committee […]