Health tutors and clinical instructors under their umbrella body Medical Educationists Association ( MEA) have gone on strike over salaries.
They have published a notice dated 29th, September warning that their strike would go on until their isssues are resolved.
Industrial action can be an effective to cause organizations and governments to respond to the needs of its workers, but in a season like this, it is a sign that people do not have the need to serve the people and their country.
Looking at the challenge of covid 19 pandemic at hand, government workers should cooperate with government in combating the scourge by providing solutions through the available dialogue channels.
Health institution teachers should be in a position of better understanding the war the government is fighting. The war to balance political pressures and yet fighting corona.
Whereas political pressure demands letting people socialize normally without consideration of the scourge of covid, the health workers should be at the frontline of sensitizing the communities about the magnititude of this covid 19 should it be left to breed.
The strike by the health institutions workers is very untimely because the government did not open schools at luxury or in a normal condition but to strike a balance. So it is very sad to see that even when the government is trying to normalize the conditions, it is welcomed with rejection and strikes.
The solution should not be to strike even before the situation comes to normal, rather to go ahead and start to teach the young generation and table their grievances to the government .
And when you get to think through it, its very saddening that the health instructors who should fight to increase health manpower in this Covid 19 era, are the ones pulling ropes in a different direction.
Some of the schools on strike are Mulago school of nursing, Masaka Comprehensive Nursing school, Butabika School of Nursing, and about 18 other nursing schools.
