Patients stranded as medical interns strike enters day 3 May 19, 2021 FILE A medic draws blood from a patient Patients across government health hospitals have been left stranded as medical interns continue to strike over allowances. On Monday this week, the interns under their umbrella body; the Federation for Uganda Medical Interns (FUMI) laid down tools, demanding that government increase their allowances from Shs 960,000 to Shs 3 million and also provides them free housing. Medical interns in Uganda provide a great service as the country’s patient-doctor ratio as recommended by the World Health Organisation is still low. It is estimated that over 80 per cent of patients at hospitals are served by interns. URN visited several hospitals in Kampala and found that the work had stalled as a result of the strike.