Justice Mulyagonja said the hospital has been reduced to a mere monument, unable to provide services to clients’ expectations.
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Justine Irene Mulyagonja Kakooza, a judge of the Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court, has lashed at the government for failing to provide Mulago Specialised National Referral Hospital with the basic necessities even in the hospital’s private wing in ward 6B.
The judge who was on Wednesday eulogising his late husband John Baptist Kakooza at a requiem mass held at Rubaga Cathedral organised for honouring the fallen lawyer and politician.
Justice Mulyagonja said the hospital has been reduced to a mere monument, unable to provide services to clients’ expectations.
Speaking in an obvious sombre mood, Justice Mulyagonja narrated what she termen a hospital tourism subjected to her family as they moved from hospital to hospital in search of affordable and adequate treatment for her husband, first from International Hospital Kampala (IHK), then to Nsambya Hospital, Mulago Hospital, back to Nsambya and then finally back to Mulago.
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“It is unfortunate that John fought for others’ rights, just as I am fighting for others’, but with no hope of anyone to fight for our rights”, she noted, causing further grief among the congregation.
After failing to get the bare needs like a shot of insulin, nasogastric tubes (NG), and getting results of a complete blood count (CBC) only after 24 hours and in a private wing, Mulyagonja concluded that she is now in position to write a book about the woes in the National Specialised Referral Hospital.
On asking for NG tubes to be fixed on her ailing husband, Mulyagonja said she was bluntly promised by three different staff that it would be done soon until, she noted, someone was bold enough to tell her the truth that this service was not available even in 6B, the private wing of the hospital.
She emphasized the point that although Mulago is the hospital for the vulnerable and poor, it has been reduced to a monument, unable to provide the services very much needed by the poor.
Lawyer John Baptist Kakooza died early in the week after being hospitalised for two months, and is being buried today Saturday in Masaka district.
The Ministry of Health spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyona promised to cause an audit to be conducted by the hospital Management. “For now let us allow the family to grieve”, Ainebyonna said.
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