Nurses accuse authorities of intimidation

The sit-down strike by nurses and midwives has entered its second day with many medical workers said to be boycotting the industrial action. The President of the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union Justus Cheroo Kiplagat blamed the low response on alleged intimidation of medical workers by resident district commissioners around the country. The Nurses and midwives are protesting the government's delay to pay them over seven billion shillings for lunch allowances, for which each would get around fifteen thousand shillings per day.