A Mukono medical practitioner has disclosed that many pensioners and other aged people who fail to set up an organised way of continuing to earn an income out of their savings are the most prone category for attacks of stress and subsequent death.
“Poor planning at retirement normally leads to lack of a reliable means of getting an income to provide for one’s upkeep and provide for the family. You should start thinking of preparing for old age well in time,” Sam Kirya, a medical practitioner attached to Mukono General Hospital said.
Kirya made the remarks on Sunday while addressing the failful of St. Paul’s Catholic Parish in Mukono, at their parish men’s day held at Merian Gardens at Ntaawo in Mukono Central Division.
During the event, the Catholic men looked at ways for proper handling of family issues including good parenting, boosting household incomes, sticking to church rules governing marriage, nutrition, and many others.
Kirya attributed the numerous cases of deaths in bathrooms, to stress saying that when a stressed person pours cold water on the body, the blood flow is disrupted which leads to dizziness, and possible collapse of victims, sometimes fatally injuring body parts especially the head.
On the rampant prostate cancer and other prostate- related health problems, Kirya said everybody is a possible candidate to this problem so long as one has ever engaged in sexual intercourse.
He however advised men to regularly take medical checkups to establish their status and take remedial measures when necessary.
He disclosed that today, wealthy people who claim they are too busy to go for medical checkups are among the most prone target of prostate problems, and advised that once one clocks 40 years, it becomes imperative that they go for regular checkups for diseases like prostate cancer, blood pressure disorders, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases.
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The head of the laity at the parish, Peter Boogere attributed the increasing cases of wives battering and sometimes fatally injuring their husbands, to men’s ego which leads them to lose the sense of remorse, thereby raising their wives’ anger and resolve to murdering them.
“We die quickly and at times in avoidable circumstances because we are unwilling to repent when we annoy our spouses; this explains the fact that today, the majority of female inmates in prisons are on charges of either killing or causing grievous bodily harm to their husbands or lovers,” Boogere noted.
On men suggesting getting in extra-marital engagements, he advised them to discard this idea, reasoning that if one fails to fulfil responsibilities in a monogamous marriage, getting into a polygamous engagement would only compound problems.
Expounding the importance of the parish men’s day, the chairman of the men’s guild, Nelson Mulyanga noted that uninformed men are in great danger of getting broken homes, and rubbished the old thinking that such gatherings were a business for women.
Elaborating further, Mulyanga said, “we should stop thinking that all issues in the home are to be solved by men, and instead give women an opportunity to handle what falls in their docket, to avoid undue clashes of interests based on our responsibilities in the home.”
Mengo government chief for Kauga Mituba IV, Eng. Isaac Newton Musoke pointed out that many boys have become wayward and a liability to their wives. Musoke appealed to them to change and begin pre-marital counselling for the boy child so as to create a balance in their homes.
The meeting was attended by among other people, former Mayor of Mukono Municipality George Fred Kagimu, the Deputy to Mit. IV Charles Nkugwa, and other executives of the parish men’s guild.
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Earlier, the men were involved in a mass at St. Paul Catholic parish church in Mukono town, in which they dominated all the services including the choir. The main celebrant, Fr. Paul Ssebitoogo, who is also the parish priest of St. Paul Catholic parish urged men to fulfill their responsibilities for better families.
Tonny Ssebaggala, the deputy head of Catholic Men’s Guild in Lugazi diocese showed dismay saying that unlike the women who embrace such functions, men always distance themselves from them.
“I am however grateful that at St. Paul, the turn-up of men is reasonable. I hope other men out there will borrow a leaf to also start doing such things which brings them together,” Ssebaggala said.
