{"id":423,"date":"2022-09-26T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=423"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:43","slug":"uganda-medical-workers-strike-at-ebola-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/09\/26\/uganda-medical-workers-strike-at-ebola-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda medical workers strike at Ebola hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-62845563?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_live&amp;ns_linkname=6331a48b194f716822a36bcf%26Uganda+medical+workers+strike+at+Ebola+hospital%262022-09-26T13%3A49%3A59.969Z&amp;ns_fee=0&amp;pinned_post_locator=urn%3Aasset%3Aad75bb99-a9d9-470b-a0f4-9641103906a9&amp;pinned_post_asset_id=6331a48b194f716822a36bcf&amp;pinned_post_type=share&amp;at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&amp;at_medium=custom7&amp;at_campaign=64&amp;at_custom4=C85C760C-3DA4-11ED-B47A-FDD82052A482&amp;at_custom3=BBC+Africa&amp;at_custom2=twitter\">BBC<\/a> &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medical interns at Uganda\u2019s Mubende hospital have gone on strike, accusing the government of not providing them with appropriate safety kit, risk allowances and health insurance. The hospital, located some 150 km (95 miles) 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 want to be evacuated to a facility with safer working conditions.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"  Nb zz\">  Nb zz<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC &#8211; Medical interns at Uganda\u2019s Mubende hospital have gone on strike, accusing the government of not providing them with appropriate safety kit, risk allowances and health insurance. The hospital, located some 150 km (95 miles) from the capital, Kampala, is hosting the main isolation centre for Ebola patients as the outbreak continues to spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,9,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-ebola","category-featured","category-global-reporting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}