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Lui Hospital staff down tools over low pay
The staff at Lui Hospital in Mundri East County of Western Equatoria State on Monday refused to sign new contracts and went on strike demanding better remuneration.
Lui Hospital is supported by the Italian organization, Doctors with Africa CUAMM, formerly known as the University College for Aspiring Missionary Doctors.
According to the hospital’s staff, they have been working while earning miserable salaries for the better part of the last ten years and were promised an increment this year.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, James Primo a laboratory technician at Lui Hospital, said he has worked for the last ten years and his salary has not been increased but that instead, the management wants to reduce it.
Western Equatoria governor donates ambulance to Lui hospital
Alfred Futuyo Karaba, the governor of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State, on Monday donated an ambulance to Lui Hospital in Mundri.
Speaking at a public rally in Lui Payam of Mundri East County, Alfred Futuyo said the ambulance is to help the communities of greater Mundri to refer the patients to Lui Hospital.
Futuyo said the purpose of his visit to the Eastern Counties was to unite the people who had been split into four states before the reversion to Western Equatoria State and tell them that peace will prevail.
“What brought me here is to tell people that peace has come and the second is there was a division of states so I am here to unite our people and also to say that there will be no tribalism. My leadership does not allow tribal lines,” Governor Futuyo said.