Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Six COVID-19 patients have escaped from the Mulago Specialised National Referral Hospital where they have been on treatment, the Deputy Executive Director, Dr. Rose Mary Banyima has revealed. While she couldn’t reveal the identities of the COVID-19 patients, she said one was admitted with his …
Read More »Mulago doctors remove knife from man’s head
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Doctors at Mulago hospital have removed a big knife that was stuck in the skull of a man who was attacked by thugs along Nakawa-Kinawataka road and robbed on Wednesday. Ndakayisenge Emmanuel, a 22 year old employee of Pepsi-Uganda working as a turn boy and …
Read More »Kirunda Kivejinja is alive contrary to rumours – Mulago
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Mulago hospital executive director Dr. Baterana has denounced the false information that has been circulating that second deputy prime Ali Kirunda Kivejinja succumbed to COVID-19. According to Dr. Baterana, such information is barbaric and is being spread by people with selfish interests, therefore Ugandans …
Read More »Mulago adds a hundred beds to accommodate more city riot causalities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mulago hospital is expanding on the bed capacity at the casualty ward in anticipation of more patients as a result of the city riots. The hospital management is creating space at new Mulago to add 100 beds for the purpose. Mulago hospital alone has since …
Read More »Mulago hospital loses half of COVID-19 patients admitted in ICU
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 50 percent of all the COVID-19 patients admitted at Mulago Hospital’s intensive care unit-ICU succumb to the disease, according to medics at the facility. According to records, the facility has lost at least 41 out of the 77 patients admitted with breathing difficulties. …
Read More »PROTESTS: Nine die during surgery at Mulago hospital
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nine of the people shot during protests following the arrest of the National Unity Platform-NUP party presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu on Wednesday died while undergoing surgery at Mulago National Referral Hospital. Speaking to journalists on Thursday afternoon, Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, the Executive Director Mulago …
Read More »Kampala protests: City mortuary receives 16 bodies
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The city mortuary at Mulago National Referral hospital has received 16 bodies resulting from Wednesday’s protests. The protests erupted after the National Unity Platform presidential flag bearer Robert Kyagulanyi was arrested in Luuka district. According to Dr Moses Byaruhanga, the police chief pathologist, 15 were …
Read More »Mulago medics separate conjoined twins
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A team of 20 specialists at Mulago National Specialized hospital have successfully separated 11 months old Siamese twins. Dr Philis Khisa, one of the doctors involved in the operation said that the process started last week with an investigation technically known as scoping where they …
Read More »Kamuli municipality MP Rehema Watongola has passed on
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kamuli Municipality MP, Hajat Rehema Watongola has succumbed to COVID-19 at Mulago National Referral Hospital. The deceased’s husband Badiru Watongola, who doubles as the Kamuli Municipality NRM chairperson told URN on phone that his wife breathed her last at around 11:30 am, Saturday morning. He …
Read More »Centenary Bank extends coronavirus support to Mulago Hospital
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Centenary Bank has extended support to Mulago hospital with items that are meant to aid patients observe standards operating procedures as they await to access treatment at the hospital lobby. This development comes amidst an alarming surge in the number of infected persons in the …
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