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Living with the dead

Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:54 By Mukama Miriam
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A visit to Mulago Hospital mortuary shows a mortician’s attempt to cope with his loss

The woman lying on the metallic slab was about 60 years old. Her skull was bare, and white with hints of her blood. The skin that normally covers the skull had bee [ … ]

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Dry medicine at Mulago

Friday, 22 February 2013 09:07 By Pearl Natamba
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How do patients and their attendants avoid infections if they cannot find water to wash their hands at the nation’s top health facility?

It is easy, when you are in the casualty ward at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, to imagine that possibly all disease causing creatures; germs, bact [ … ]

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'I’m going to cut off your leg'

Sunday, 17 February 2013 09:26 By Miriam Mukama
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Who is to blame when accident victims run away from Mulago Hospital?

It is 12:30 and although accident victims are supposed to get relief here, the afternoon heat and stinking air in orthopedic ward 3AOC of Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala is no relief at all.

The walls of the ward tha [ … ]

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Ratan Tata retires

Monday, 07 January 2013 08:21 administrator
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Marking a generational change, Tata, who turned 75 on December 28, 2012, handed over the reins of the group to 44-year-old Cyrus Mistry who was chosen his successor in 2011 year and formally appointed Chairman in December 2012.

Ratan Tata, who led the transformation of the Tata group from a convent [ … ]

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Jose Mujica: The world’s ‘poorest’ president

Monday, 07 January 2013 08:11 By Agencies
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Uruguay has the second highest income per person in Latin America at US$ 15,840; about 30 times that of Uganda and ahead of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.

It’s a common grumble that politicians’ lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president - who l [ … ]

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