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Daily Monitor
Monday December 28 2020
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Before being appointed District Health Officer, Nabangi served as a medical doctor at St Francis Hospital in Buluba, Baitambogwe Sub-county.
Paul Muzige, the Mayuge District principal assistant secretary said his death was a big loss to the district.
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This has been a very trying year for the medical profession in the world and Uganda in particular. A number of medical workers have succumbed to Covid-19 while others died of natural causes. Today, we pay tribute to some of the doctors the country has lost.
Charles Nabangi
Remembered for his developmental initiatives and advocating for better health services in the district, the Mayuge District health officer Dr Charles Nabangi was said to have died of high blood pressure at Nile Hospital in Jinja according to the district senior communication officer, Lukiah Kakai.
Dr Michael Mugwanya passed away on Wednesday aged 46.
He has been acclaimed as a very hardworking and dedicated doctor.
According to his colleagues, in 2005, Dr Mugwanya was medical officer at Bukomero Health Centre IV in Kiboga District. At the time, the district was extremely rural.
“He and other colleagues came into the wilderness that was Kiboga right from medical school with their young families, worked in deeply rural health facilities with no mobile network, extremely rough roads, and understaffed in the land of ‘Nakawunde’,” Mr Roy Mayega, a friend of the deceased, said in his tribute.
He added: “They worked with budgets of Shs250,000 for health centre II, Shs750,000 for health centre III, Shs4 million for health centre IV per quarter from primary healthcare conditional grant at a time when cost sharing was abolished.”