High court dismisses appeal
Daily Monitor The Director of Public Prosecutions, in 2014, filed an appeal to the Criminal Division of High Court of Uganda at Kampala challenging the decision by the Chief Magistrate’s Court of Buganda Road to acquit Dr Edward Tamale Ssali. Dr Tamale had been jointly charged with an anaesthetist for causing the death of a patient by rash or negligent act. Dr Tamale was the patient’s primary doctor and the proprietor of the hospital where the patient died. It was alleged that the anesthetist wrongly inserted the tube to supply oxygen to the patient during the operation. The patient die...