Hello Fellow Ugandans and all our friends!
I am extremely disappointed to read the accusations herein.
Mulago was once a regional hospital because the government of the day cared
about the health of all Ugandans. There were also many "Mulagos" all over
Uganda. Then came military wars one after another in 1970s, the early 80s up
to this day. The Mulago doctors all along have continued to do their job with
professionalism even though the government of Uganda has neglected the
hospital for years. Today government officials and their families fly to
Europe and elsewhere for treatment, on Ugandan taxpayers money; while Ugandans
go to Mulago to die as a last resort. The professionals at Mulago do not
treat tribes, they have always treated patients. Presently, there are so few
professional doctors and nurses at Mulago, that they cannot respond to all our
needs as Ugandans. It has nothing to do with being a Muganda; never has and
never will. I am one of those family members who lost a surgeon operating on
patients without proper gloves and other supplies
despite the AIDS epidemic all because of dedication and commitment to saving
lives.
Even if Mulago professionals were on a mission to treat only Baganda; they
would not know them. In Kampala everyone literally has a Kiganda name and
speaks Luganda except a few Tutsi Rwandis connected with the ruling class. It
would take the Mulago doctors and nurses more time looking for Baganda to
treat than just treating whoever comes in with whatever little they have to
offer.
I strongly resent resent these accusations. They are misplaced. I also
have another brother who died recently due to lack of needed equipment and
medicine, but not because the doctors didn't care. If anyone wants answers,
they should go to the Ugandan Minister of Health and stop attacking the
underpaid, overworked medical professionals of Mulago and other hospitals in
the country.
Thank you for reading my objection! Let us pray for our country and our
people. The numerous wars are killing us all too early. We have to emplore
the SUPERNATURAL POWERS to help us out. They are more than any of us as human
being can handle.
Have a super new week! Thank God we are alive to write to each other.
Sincerely,
Assumpta Mary Kintu
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Where did UPC kill Baganda as flies? Please use all pages to explain.
Em
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Kibuka
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected]
Cc: Florence Namutebi ; anna akot
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 2:52 PM
Subject: Is Mulago only for baganda? MATEK
The problem wih you Matek is that you always write things with out thinking
them through a little. I'm of the view that you sould have read my email a
little more carefully before replying. I said that UPC created the demand
for Museveni because they presided over a governement that failed to
control its soldiers. Even as bad as Museveni is, his solders are not
killing as many Ugandans out of the operational theater as Obote's did.
Your right, the Baganda supported Museveni during the bush war, but only
because they had no alternative. UPC was killed them like flies, therefore
the blame lies squarely on them, why can't you people really see your
mistakes and take responsibility? With regard to Mulago, I think you have
completly lost it here. I'm sure you read todays new vision story of
mothers dieing while giving birth. If you did not, then read here below and
tell me if the names mentioned there belong to only baganda. In
fact the nurse taking care of these women who are not baganda judging by
their names, is a Muganda her self. This is effecting every body. To help
you out a little, I have highlighted the names out for you. I don't
understand why you're playing this tribal card in such a terible situation.
JN
Death in Mulago Hospital Friday, 27th
July, 2007
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Women sit in the labour ward
corridor at Mulago
Babies die because mothers wait too long for caesarean
By Harriet Onyalla
DAVID died. He was just a day old. This chubby baby, who weighed
5.5kg at birth, bled to death because his umbilical cord had been cut
'badly'.
In fact, David was named after the shepherd boy in the Bible long
after his little heart stopped beating. The Alur culture demanded that either
way, he be named.
Every two hours, a baby dies at Mulago Hospital's maternity ward as a
result of birth-related complications. Hospital records indicate that
on average, nine babies die from birth-related complications every
day, nine little souls like David. This means, about 270 babies die
every month.
"Some days, over 15 babies die," a hospital source, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, says.
David's only day in this world went terribly wrong. "We spent the
whole day at the hospital but nobody cared," his father, Clinton
Oketcha, narrates. "The baby was bleeding. The baby really cried.
Then a nurse helped us and put him on oxygen but she said we should
pray because the machine was not working properly."
Oketcha will forever be haunted by the blank face of the doctor to
whom he turned in desperation. "He just looked at me and walked
away," he says as a slight tremor creeps into his deep voice.
Mulago Hospital, Ward 5C, Sunday 9:00am: The air in the corridor of
the labour ward seems to stand still. Over 20 women in labour are
sitting or lying on the floor. "Musawo nyamba, nfaa!" (Doctor, help I
am dying), one woman wails.
She is kneeling on all fours. She jerks forward, then crawls rapidly
back. Groaning in pain, she puts her elbows on the cold, stained
marble floor, rising swiftly. The white blouse she is wearing slides
over her shoulder, leaving her naked.
"The baby is coming," another woman, swaying in pain next to her,
shouts. A third expecting mother sits calmly next to them, a stream
of waterish blood running from under her skirts towards the middle of
the corridor. The woman opposite her tries to move away from the
blood running towards her. She stands up, looks around, then slowly
shakes her head and sits down again as her wrapper gets soaked. There
is no other place to sit. The corridor is packed to capacity.
According to Dr. Samuel Kalisoke, the in-charge of Mulago's
gynaecology and obstetrics department, about 70 mothers are admitted
and 60 deliver every day, yet the place was meant to cater for only
20. Some give birth in the corridors. "We are delivering three times
the number we are supposed to handle," he says.
"Most of these mothers are referred from other hospitals when their
condition is already critical. In fact, many babies are born with the
skin already peeling off, meaning that they died 24 hours earlier."
On average, one third of the mothers received at Mulago need to
deliver by caesarean section. The operation theatre, which has only
one bed, handles an average of 18 mothers a day.
The doctors work day and night but hardly manage to cater for the
influx. A proper operation, including preparations, takes two hours.
Some have to wait for a day to find a slot.
"Many times we have 21 emergency operations," says nurse Rose Violet
Nakayiza. "Babies end up being born stressed or dead because
the mothers waited too long for the caesarean operation. Imagine you
have 15 patients waiting for an emergency operation, all of them in a
critical condition. Whom do you operate and whom do you leave out?"
Apart from lack of space and equipment, the maternity wing suffers
from acute lack of staff. There are between eight and 12 staff
members for the five wards at any one time, according to Dr. Kalisoke.
These include nurses, midwives and doctors.
"In the labour suite, there are only three staff to cater for over 60
mothers a day, yet there should be 24," he says.
Mulago is Uganda's national referral hospital. It has become the only
place where mothers around Kampala go to give birth. Most health
centres around the city shun women who are about to give birth
because they lack the operation facilities in case the delivery goes
wrong.
Many private clinics only give antenatal care and refer the mother to
Mulago when the labour pain starts.
"Some refer the women when it is too late", explains nurse Nakayiza.
"They don't tell the women what the problem is or even notify us of
the condition of the patient and the reason for referral. Many times,
the baby is already dead in the womb. And when they come when we have
a lot of work, it is difficult to give them the attention they need.
So the lives of the mothers are also at risk."
Another problem, she says, is ignorance and poverty.
"Some mothers arrive here after labouring at home for days. "Others
don't have transport and are brought in by neighbours when it is very
late. Many times we are just helpless."
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:48:40 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Baganda Can Clip Mu7's Wings? YES WE CAN KASIM.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles you write quote "They UPC imporsed this monster called Museveni
on the people of Uganda and must suffer the consequences for ever."...
The UPC never imposed as you state "Monster Museveni " on the people of
Uganda... rather it is you fellows bana ba Gundi..who carnived with
Museveni to create chaos in Uganda..and you are now suffering the
consequencies of your stupidity... let Museveni take all the land...let
him import more balalos to take over this your so called baganda land..
And as far as stating that "UPC is suffering"..which cave have you been
in my friend..those suffering are you kinsmen at Mulago hospital.... who
must be treated by third rated medical assistants because the doctors are
busy attending to their clinics.... or there are simply no medicine to
offer to the sick....that is unless you have "kitu kidogo"...Suffer you
sorry behind!!!
Matek
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Well Kasim, the war to change that mindset is on now. We're educating
the baganda and banyoro about the consequences of supporting Museveni.
Some of us are in advanced stages of preparations to permanently camp
on the ground back home for a very long time to see this through. You
should remember how Museveni gained this support in Buganda. That is
how UPC comes into the picture again, because had they controlled those
unruly soldiers and stopped the killings of baganda, then Museveni
would have been irrelevant. Had UPC not attacked Bulange and caused the
death of the people's king, there wouldn't have been a need for
Museveni. They UPC imporsed this monster called Museveni on the people
of Uganda and must suffer the consequences for ever.
UPC is to blame because they created the demand for an alternative and
Museveni offered it at the time. But now Museveni is no longer a
protector, but rather the trouble causer in buganda. You can see for
your self now that he is planning to import more balalo into buganda.
The grand plan is to make sure that the entire buganda is totally
colonised by people he thinks he might need in the future when the
going gets tough. These are the same people that brought him into power
in the first place you know. Coalitions are being formed slowly but
surely and we're making a slow but sure progress, so your Museveni can
not intimidate us with those guns that you're talking about. Alliances,
will be formed on this very forum, and every where else and we shall
use our constitutional rights to arm our ignorant people with
information and knowledge and that will work against Museveni.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
JN
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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:02:46 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Baganda Can Clip Mu7's Wings.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That is day dreaming. Museveni has more support in Buganda than he
has in Western Uganda. Of the four million Baganda, only about 1.5
million support the removal of Mu7.The rest still support him,especially
those in rural areas.
You cannot kick out a millitary man with only demonstrations. Tear
gas alone,before even he gets out his guns,will send you away.
Government is, to a great extent, insurmountable.
Kassim.
Edward Mulindwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul Mivumba
Then we make Dr Kiiza Besigye the next president with
Museveni as a Prime Minister and Kayinerugaba as a Minister of
Defence, Janet Museveni as an ambassador in UK as Winnie Byanyima
will be posted in New York as a representative to the UN, all that
works out if Besigye moves faster than Konny taking over for if
Konny takes over, Winnie is history.
Next question?
Em
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
----- Original Message -----
From: Jean Paul Mivumba
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: Baganda Can Clip Mu7's Wings.
After you have kicked M7 out, then what?
On 7/27/07, David Basobokwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: Fellows,
We are talking too much about how to remove Mu7 from the
Presidency. I just landed on an idea.
If we organised all the Baganda and their associates, would
we not kick this Mu7 out l;ike we kicked him out of Mabira? Some
one on this forum said the baganda are the biggest tribe in
Uganda. Folks, this is the most effective method.
David
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