Letter to the Editor -Monitor -10th October 2003
Museveni�s grandchild has taken over the press for almost 10 days. And most of the people are more concerned about the monies that were spent for this creation miracle to take place. I have read many comments, including what my neighbour Dr Muniini Mulera contributed in The Monitor. I however want to take this in a different direction.
If you read the president�s explanation as to why he had to send this girl to Germany you would see that Museveni is a president who is very scared. He is scared of the medical system he has created in Uganda, he trusts no doctor with not only his life or the lives of his family members. Why has Museveni failed to get a Ugandan doctor he trusts?
My question then becomes, what will he do if he leaves office? If he is not elected tomorrow for a third term, how will he and his entire family get medical attention if he does not trust any of them today?
Museveni fought to rid Uganda of dictators but we all remember that when former president Idi Amin fell sick, he was operated on at Mulago National Referral Hospital. Is Museveni telling us today that Ugandans loved Amin more than they love him?
Dr Apollo Milton Obote was shot in Lugogo when he was president in 1969, and he was immediately rushed to Mulago. Museveni says that Ugandans love him more than they love Obote. Why was Obote willing to succumb to the knife in a Ugandan hospital and not a man who is allegedly more loved?
Was Natasha sent to Germany for security reasons or because under the Movement government, the entire medical infrastructure has been destroyed?
Edward Mulindwa,
Toronto, Canada.
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