Government is working around the clock to Improve and ensure safe Labour externalization, Laban Joshua Musinguzi the Cordinator of the Parliamentary Forum for Labour, Decent Employment and Productivity, has revealed.
Laban said government in the past weeks decided to halt the externalization of Labour in Gulf countries.
He said this was aimed at ensuring the pending issues affecting migrant workers’ are solved.
Musinguzi added that a number of steps are being taken at cabinet and technical levels with high level meetings taking place to streamline the industry.
Following the pronouncements made by Musinguzi at a recent Meeting between Parents of Migrant Workers, and defenders of Migrant Workers, organized by Migrant Workers Voice Network Association, Government, revealed that they will be carrying out medical and internal organ checks on leaving and returning workers, among others to help safeguard most of them from organ harvesting.
The policy will be effective in the next two weeks and no person will be going into labor without undergoing body organ checks to confirm they have them all intact.
Labor export companies have been urged to prepare money for such expenses because no external work will be cleared without that medical certificate
However Abdullah Kayonde the president of Migrant Workers Voice Organization, said decision by government to make it mandatory for Migrant Workers to do Pre and Post medical tests as prerequisite to travel is a good ideas but the comprehensive pre medical examination of all migrant workers by the state has been hurriedly done since the Ugandan migrant workers whom government is planning for such a procedure have got no insurance policy that would cater for all that.
“Something that does not give a cover to all those that would be only subjected to that even when they have acquired damages from there.”