Nakimuli walked herself to the clinic and theatre, she was demanded to pay sh500,000 upon which she told them to proceed with delivering her as the money was deposited on her mobile phone.
Last Friday, the situation at Medicity in Lungujja zone 8, Lubaga Division, turned dramatic when doctors who had put an expectant mother to a therapy to induce labour, took to their heels on realizing that instead, the mother had died immediately after a caesarean delivery.
Suspicious relatives stormed the theatre and were stunned to find Annet Nakimuli, before her death, a resident of Factory zone in Nateete, lying unattended to, whereupon they rushed her and the baby to Lubaga Hospital where she was pronounced dead. The baby was by press time on artificial respiration.
Medics at Lubaga told Nakimuli’s relatives that she had been badly severed during the operation which led to her death. The angry friends of the deceased pounced on Medicity Clinic property and destroyed everything including windows and door panes.
Nakimuli walked herself to the clinic and theatre, she was demanded to pay sh500,000 upon which she told them to proceed with delivering her as the money was deposited on her mobile phone. The doctors were said to be residing at a bit of a distance from the clinic and she was asked to wait for them amid sharp labour pains.
Zaverio Galiwango, a neighbour to Nakimuli, said that although she had arrived at the clinic at around 3:00pm, by the time he arrived at the clinic she was profusely bleeding and on IVF drip at around 10:00pm.
During burial at the home of her father, the late Andrew Kangavve at Matugga in Gombe Division Nansana Municipality, mourners were cursing the Medicity medics for having refused to hand them the deceased before her death and having realized that they could not normally deliver her, and later releasing her after death.
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The deceased’s mother Winnie Namuli expressed dissatisfaction with her daughter’s death and was swearing to take up the matter in court after burial. Recently, Ritah Nansubuga of Kira, who had just returned home from Dubai, was taken to Sunset Consultancy Clinic where she died while undergoing Caesarean operation.
Perpetrators were arrested, arraigned in court and are languishing in Luzira prison on remand. The Assistant Secretary for the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council, Dr. Ivan Kisuule clarified that a clinic has no licence for operating mothers.
Dr. Kisuule blamed the rampant cases of this nature to the fact that many mothers do not have the ability to differentiate between which facilities can give maternal services and which ones cannot. He advised mothers to, on getting to any facility, ask to be shown a licence authorizing that facility to conduct maternal services.