The people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda have said that the National Budget that was presented in parliament on June 8 remains wanting since it did not consider increasing the doctors’ salaries.

Lillian Mwoleko who works with International Organization of Women Living with HIV/Aids told the journalists in Kampala that the government would have considered the long awaited increase of the doctors’ salaries this fiscal year.

Mwoleko says that doctors handle contagious diseases like HIV/AIDS, Ebola and swine flu which put their lives at risk so they deserve motivation to give them more courage for attending to the patients with such diseases.

Mwoleko says that she appreciates the scrapping off of taxes on ambulances and the increase of the Ministry of Health’s budget but she says that most funds are dissolved in administrative costs and buying expensive cars instead of benefiting the technical people on ground.

She blames the Members of Parliament for advocating for the increase of their salaries to 19 million while the doctors for a number of years have not seen any change in their salaries.

By Issa Asuman