Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Butabika Mental National Referral Hospital has registered 1500 patients, the highest number of patients received at the facility in a year according to the Executive Director, Dr. Juliet Nakku. On average, Butabika Mental National Referral Hospital receives about 500 patients annually. However, the facility had …
Read More »Lockdown led to spike in mental breakdown – Butabika hospital boss
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There was a spike in mental breakdown across the country because of the COVID-19 lockdown, the executive director of Butabika Hospital, Dr. Juliet Nakku has said. According to Dr Nakku, their admissions at the 550 capacity bed hospital shot up to over 1,000 people …
Read More »PAC gives Butabika hospital ultimatum to present expenditure records
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has given Butabika National Referral Hospital an ultimatum of one week to present records of implemented activities in the financial year 2018/2019. This followed the failure by the hospital administrators to explain why the hospital had recorded several unimplemented and …
Read More »Body of arrested Rwandan national buried in Kampala cemetery
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The body of Emmanuel Magezi, a Rwandan National who had reportedly been in military custody for ten months before his death at Butabika Hospital was buried in Kampala City Cemetery, URN has learnt. According to records at the City Mortuary, Magezi was buried on January …
Read More »Butabika Hospital probed for mismanaging Alcohol and Drug Unit project
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Butabika National Mental Referral Hospital has been accused of mismanaging the Alcohol and Drug Unit (ADU) expansion Project. The Unit is envisaged to handle the increasing number of patients in need of rehabilitation services. But, according to a report of the Auditor General, there …
Read More »Butabika Hospital officials grilled over drug shortages
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officials from the Butabika National Mental Referral Hospital have been tasked to explain the stock out of essential drugs at the facility which has forced patients to resort to expensive health care systems. Led by the Executive Director Butabika Hospital, Dr David Basangwa, the …
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