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The medical students are demanding that Ministry of Health deploys them for internship.
Earlier this month, Police in Wandegeya dispersed off and arrested three pre-medical interns who were protesting over internship deployment.
Luke Owoyesigyire, the Kampala metropolitan police deputy spokesperson, confirmed the arrest of the three pre-medical interns who were detained at Wandegeya police station and charged with inciting violence.
The arrest comes at the backdrop of an on-going week-long campaign on social media dubbed #UgandaHealthExhibition which is aimed at projecting critical issues in Uganda’s health sector.
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Uganda’s health sector has for years been faced with challenges such as lack of equipment, poor funding, poor infrastructure and understaffing among others.
Early this year, for instance, the executive director Butabika National Referral Hospital, Dr. Juliet Nakku, said the hospital had not been supported to handle a high number of mental health cases as the hospital bed capacity was only 550.
The hospital, she added, has 1000 mental health illness patients admitted despite having a smaller bed capacity.
“There have to be interventions regarding the ever-increasing cases of mental illness patients. Butabika hasn’t been supported to handle high numbers. The hospital only has a bed capacity of 550 beds which is not enough,” she told this reporter.
She said in every 10 people, 4 of them are suffering from depression, and this is a source of suffering from mental health-related diseases.