Medical Council investigates Mulago over conjoined twins
Thursday April 15 2021
Surgeons conduct an operation on a patient. The Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council is investigating Mulago Hospital for declining to operate conjoined twins who had been referred to the facility for separation. Photo | Rachel Mabala
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The director general of health services, Dr Henry Mwebesa, told Daily Monitor yesterday that they are still waiting for the Council’s findings to inform next course of action.
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The Ministry of Health has asked Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council (UMDPC) to investigate circumstances under which Mulago hospital declined to operate on conjoined twins who were referred to the facility for separation last month.
Reading a jointly signed document, Dr Ssekitoleko explained that the post-mortem was conducted by a team of senior pathologists in presence of two family representatives and two physicians delegated by the church, adding that at the end of the exercise, it was established that the archbishop had a heart attack due to a blood clot in the heart vessels.
But the post-mortem report did not put a stop to the spread of fake videos on YouTube. It’s only a clip by NTV with 12,495 views uploaded on April 3, 2021, titled “Archbishop Lwanga found dead in his home” that features in the top 10 most-watched videos about Lwanga’s death. The rest are fake commentaries. Lwanga was buried inside Rubaga Cathedral on Thursday.
Daily Monitor
Monday March 15 2021
Mining in Karamoja Sub-region is one of the activities that has been affected by the suspension of DGF funds. PHOTO/ COURTESY
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Several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the country have halted or downscaled activities weeks after the government suspended operations of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF).
A number have temporarily stopped staff from working while others have introduced a shift model for employees to reduce costs.
The most affected civil society organisation (CSOs) include those engaged in accountability, human rights and good governance, democracy, service delivery monitoring and capacity-building at national, regional and grassroots level.
Finance minister Matia Kasaija froze DGF operations on February 17 on orders of President Museveni, who on February 2, argued that more than Shs500b donor-bankrolled kitty required government oversight.
On January 8, 2020, Facebook removed 32 pages, 220 user accounts, 59 groups, and 139 Instagram profiles working to promote Ugandan president and National Resistance Movement (NRM) leader Yoweri Museveni. The accounts of at least six government employees and two PR firms were involved in the network taken down by Facebook for using fake and duplicate accounts and misleading pages to target public debate ahead of the 14 January presidential election.
According to a Facebook statement, they removed the assets “for violating our policy against government interference, which is coordinated inauthentic behaviour on behalf of a government entity. This network originated in Uganda and targeted domestic audiences.”
Daily Monitor
Thursday February 04 2021
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Uncertainty yesterday loomed large over the future of civil society organisations in the country after President Museveni ordered that operations of Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), their principal funder, be “immediately suspended”.
President Museveni ordered the Inspector General of Government (IGG), police and State House Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate how the Ministry of Finance authorised the DGF to operate in Uganda and allegedly bankroll NGOs and government agencies to undermine him.
The DGF is financed by governments of Denmark, Ireland, Austria, UK, Sweden, Norway and the European Union, with an aim of ensuring equitable growth, poverty eradication, rule of law and long term stability in Uganda.