“We later took him to Mukono General Hospital where he received the first aid but he was again referred to Mulago National Referral Hospital following his critical condition,” Sseryanzi said.
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Mukono-based Bukedde TV reporter, David Musisi Kalyankolo is currently admitted in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Case Clinic following a head injury he sustained while covering a power blackout protest on Friday evening.
According to fellow journalists who were working with Kyalyankolo, while police from Mukono tried to disperse the protesters who had gathered at Ngandu cell in Mukono central Division, they used teargas and one of the canisters accidentally landed on Kalyankolo’s head.
Herbert Sseryazi, a reporter with NBS TV said that Kalyankolo was carried from the scene of the incident when he was unconscious and rushed to Mukono Church of Uganda Hospital where the medical officers refused to admit him following his critical condition.
“We later took him to Mukono General Hospital where he received the first aid but he was again referred to Mulago National Referral Hospital following his critical condition,” Sseryanzi said.
However, on their way to Mulago, Kalyankolo’s employers of Vision Group intervened and directed him to be taken to Case Hospital where he is currently lying in ICU.
Though his condition is still uncertain, Marvin Museyeye, a fellow Bukedde TV reporter said that the medics had informed them that he will get better though he needed time.
Efforts to get a formal police statement following the incident by press time had not yet yielded any results though we leant that one person had been arrested so far.