Medical interns at Uganda’s Mubende hospital have gone on strike, accusing the government of not providing them with appropriate safety kits, risk allowances and health insurance.
The hospital, located some 150 kilometres from the capital, Kampala, is hosting the main isolation centre for Ebola patients as the outbreak continues to spread in the central region.
All 34 interns, including doctors, pharmacists and nurses said in a statement that they would not return to work and wanted to be evacuated to a facility with safer working conditions, as six intern medical workers are said to have been exposed to the virus and are currently in isolation awaiting laboratory results.
