Up to1039 phantom names have been found on the medical attendants’ finance. The names were uncovered during installment of lunch stipends for medical caretakers.
Uganda has a sum of 70,167 medical caretakers and birthing assistants enrolled by the public authority’s Nurses and Midwifery Council.
As per a letter seen by URN, somewhere in the range of 147 phantom wellbeing laborers got the cash under the agenda of medical caretakers working under the Uganda Police, 40 from Jinja area, 40 from Ntungamo region and different areas including Kanungu, Kamwenge, Adjumani, Bunyangabu and Kasese.
With the changed recompenses, qualified attendants who had been getting sh3,000 for lunch will presently be getting 15,000 though nursing aides who were being paid 2,000 have been moved up to 10,000 Shillings. 70 Billion has been planned for the remittances every year.
Inferable from these abnormalities, Catherine Bitarakwate Musingwire, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service has given the bookkeeping officials of the influenced regions to delicate in a clarification not later than the fifteenth of August. “You are mentioned to clarify recorded as a hard copy by fifteenth of August, 2021 the conditions under which the connected workers were enlisted onto the lunch remittance. The aggregate sum of the lunch remittance procured throughout the years ought to likewise be connected”, she said.
Musingwire additionally noticed that more than 1,000 apparition medical caretakers had been getting the cash yet they are not wellbeing laborers and don’t work in wellbeing offices.
In any case, Jinja District Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) William Kanyesigye said while Jinja has been set apart as one of the regions with high phantom recipients, it was done in blunder and that they have booked a gathering for Monday to have this rectified.
He said, the supposed apparitions work in wellbeing offices in the region in spite of the fact that he adds he has found just a single individual who is an instructor.
In Ntungamo region, the CAO Nasser Mukiibi says the 20 distinguished phantoms are not wellbeing laborers but rather they are support staff in the wellbeing office who function as typists and cleaners.
