Workers at Butabika national referral hospital have this morning demonstrated over the arrest of three security officials that were arrested by unknown personnel last week 15th September 2021, the same day parliamentarians vististed the hospital for inspection.
With placards reading “staff should be released” and ” we people working on the insane and ‘abayaga’ where is our security?”, the workers gathered near the directors office demanding justice.
The facility director, Mrs Nakku Juliet in company of Hon. Christipher and Hon. Balimwezo, the area MP, assured the health workers that the administration is doing all that it can to set the hospital’s security guards free.
On asking the reason for thier arrest, this website found out that the workers were not aware as to why thier colleagues were arrested.
By 1:02pm, the director informed the demonstrators that their colleagues were released although she did not say if it was on bond.
Hon.Ronald Balimwezo the area MP applauded the nurses and other health workers who stood up for thier rights and voiced thier grievances to the authority and also promised to table thier concerns on the floor of parliament on Tuesday this week.
Some of the greavances the workers told the Director that they were facing included lack of risk allowances, taxing of thier Lunch allowance, risk of rape from the patients, lack of man power at the facility where ration of patient to security gauges is 1:100 and relatives dumping injured patients at hospital without helping workers to acceratin cause of injury but accuse them of man handling and killing of the patients in case they pass on due to injuries sustained
Butabika health workers were crying over the lack of enough staff to handle the patients and also the insecure environment they operate in risking rape and infections by the patients.
