Currently the hardest thing to do in Uganda is picking your national ID from nira collection centers. It always feels like you have won a battle when you finally pick it. Yesterday my neighbour got his and threw a victory party and cut a cow plus 2 goats 🤣🤣🤣🙌
@NewtonAllan6 A bad outcome is not automatically malpractice, and malpractice is certainly not automatically murder. Human lives are complex, medicine is not magic, and doctors are not gods. If a doctor erred, let the evidence establish it and let the proper authorities act. Not social-media
I have seen videos circulating, accusing a doctor at People’s Hospital of having “killed a mother.”
First, let’s be careful with such allegations. Doctors do not go to work intending to kill patients. Doctors are trained and committed to saving lives and improving the health of their patients.
The reality, however, is that doctors deal with human lives, and medicine does not always have the outcome we hope for. A patient can receive appropriate treatment and still deteriorate or die because of the severity of their illness, complications, or circumstances beyond the doctor’s control.
Just as a farmer can plant crops and some may fail to germinate, or a tailor can make a garment that later gets torn, doctors can provide the best possible care and still experience an unfortunate outcome.
The difference is that in medicine, the outcome involves a human life. When that life is lost, there is genuine grief, pain and a grieving family that deserves compassion and answers.
But an unfortunate medical outcome should not automatically translate into an accusation of murder.
Where there are concerns about negligence or misconduct, let the facts, medical records and proper investigations establish what happened.
Doctors are not murderers. They are human beings entrusted with one of the greatest responsibilities: caring for human life.
If it wasn’t for my response, you wouldn’t have talked about this matter in a federation you lead.
In fact, I haven’t heard you in a long time talking about local football. We’ve not been talking about the foreign leagues since June but neither have we heard FUFA talking about the direction of local football including AFCON 2027.
World Cup came & went & we didn’t hear you. AFCON is near the corner, & you can drop a pin & it will be louder than you telling Ugandans about what’s happening or going to happen about it. How ready is Uganda visa vis the other PAMOJA organizers & we’re numb.
Somehow, you will accuse us of supporting foreign leagues. A player was murdered. I didn’t hear a single word from you. You didn’t even attend burial. You sent a representative but you even failed to call for a press conference later.
Somehow, the foreign leagues must be blamed instead of your incompetence. Come on, we’re mature people. Give up & let someone who can overturn this conundrum come up.
Government of Uganda employs about 480,000 civil servants. There are other public servants not under civil service like the UPDF & agencies that support civil service.
All these make government employ less than a million people. We’re 50m Ugandans with 1.8-2m young people between 18-30 years old unemployed, while nearly 45-49% are categorized as NEET( Not in Education, Employment or Training).
You’re at home & it’s been years expecting to join civil service. Come on. Create your own job.
Supply something to those in the civil service. It could be food items or dry ration or window curtains. Put a washing bay somewhere.
Do online trade. Big people don’t go down town. Take shoes, undershirts, underwear to them.
I have never seen salons & barbershops near government agencies. Why? Put an executive hair saloon near a ministry headquarters.
Deal in agro-based produce. Farmers are stick with produce. Find some market & do food supply chain management.
Stand in the gap as middlemen & earn. Buy the coffee. Supply it. Buy hides & skins of cows & goats slaughtered in towns & villages. Dry them & supply to the Basajja Balabas of this world.
You can earn better than those occupying government jobs. Business needs connections. Yes. Not based on tribe, education, religion, or region. The language of business is profits.
I know you will ask me about capital. Where do you get millions you lay to people to connect you to government jobs? Go to cozy restaurants & bars. It’s young unemployed or semi-employed that spend millions a week there.
Open your eyes please! You don’t need a government job to live well & better. You need your brains to work. Many of those who worked in government till retirement, go home with nothing. They live a very lonely & poor lives. Is that what you aspire to be?
Zukuka. Zibuka. Wake up!
Dear Cesc Fàbregas,
You gave Chelsea your magic, your vision, your assists.
And now, all these years later, you may be about to give us another one: taking Liam Delap off our hands.
Some love stories never truly end. 💙
𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
Uganda’s young doctors have been humiliated 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵!
Medical interns provide essential services to Ugandans, yet in an attempt to evade the moral responsibility of paying them, they are now being conveniently labelled “students.”
@MinofHealthUG, take note of the position of Uganda’s doctors:
𝟭. 𝗨.𝗠.𝗔 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀 until clear, formal communication is issued regarding their allowances and welfare.
𝟮. 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱. We reject any attempt to pay only those who were formerly government-sponsored while abandoning their formerly privately-sponsored colleagues. They hold the same qualifications, perform the same duties and serve the same Ugandan patients.
𝟯. If these concerns remain unresolved, 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗨𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 their 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝟭𝟰 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟲 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, 𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.
𝟰. 𝗔𝗻𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁, 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 or 𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 for declining to report for "slavery" will trigger immediate industrial action by doctors across Uganda.
To the Ugandan public, please understand this:
𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀. They are qualified doctors, nurses and pharmacists undergoing supervised professional apprenticeship while providing healthcare services.
If Government chooses not to resolve this matter fairly, ethically and urgently, disruption of public health services may become unavoidable. We urge @GovUganda to act now, before patients are made to bear the consequences of a preventable crisis.
Service with Honour.
cc:
@KagutaMuseveni@Parliament_Ug@Thomas_Tayebwa@HSC_UG
An institution takes your money.
You raise concern about it.
They run to court.
You are damaging their name.
You smile, for it is a Temple of Justice.
Court orders you to pay them more.
More than they took from you.
And add a Fine to the state, plus costs.
You are raped in turns.
From all angles and directions.
Violent untamed erections.
Penetrating every innocent part.
Judges hold you down.
With huge wooden hammers.
Suffocating you with wigs.
For the institution to sodomise you.
After the bloody orgy.
They masturbate on your pleas.
Singing songs to the Load above.
Celebrating a triumphant rape.
What about the voiceless?
The wretched down there.
With no one to hear them scream.
Does justice ever visit them?
An 8-year-old boy walked through those doors. A man walks out. Dream lived. Purpose fulfilled. To every academy player at Chelsea: keep believing. Your time will come. Never give up. 💙
By Roy William Mayega
Facebook wall, edited
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 @RubabindaJr 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 '𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬' 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥.
𝐈𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬—𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄𝐒 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋.
These were some of the questions that the 'venom spitting', obviously frustrated, physician raised:
1. When patients sleep on the floor, is it the fault of the doctors? Why would the inspectors raise a lot of hullaballoo about finding patients scattered on the floor (Interpreted: Was there any unoccupied bed that was denied to the patients? Do you dimwits expect the doctors to buy beds for the patients and to build wards to address overcrowding, as part of their terms of reference)?
2. If there are no nasogastric tubes for feeding patients, it is the fault of the doctors (Interpreted: Do you dimwits expect the doctors to buy drugs and medical sundries using their own money when the National Medical Stores does not supply them; to add more drama: If there are no gloves, do you expect the doctors to do rectal exams with bare fingers)?
3. If Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital is only staffed at 30% of the minimum recommended establishment, where do you think the Medical Director will get the people to cover all shifts, day and night (Interpreted: Do you dimwits expect the few existing staff to be on call 24 hours in perpetuity to cover the glaring staff shortages; what type of mathematics do you expect the managers to use in allocating staff - should they use quantum physics, where an electron can be observed to be in all places at the same time)?
4. If you come to inspect the health facility at 3am, do you expect the health facility in-charge to be on-call then? If they are there, what will happen in the morning (Interpreted: Do you dimwits expect the health facility in-charge to be a robot that never gets tired/never sleeps, and is supposed to work the entire night, yet be fresh and ready to run the facility affairs in the morning)?
5. The budget needs for Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital are at 53 Billion while government provided 2.8 Billion. How is the hospital going to provide the needed medications with such a budget shortage (Interpreted: Are hospital directors expected to be like Jesus who managed to serve 15,000 people with 3 fish and 5 loaves of bread, everybody eating to their fill, and leaving 30 baskets of left-overs - in short, should health facility managers be evaluated based on their ability to perform miracles)?
𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞: 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬—𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐕 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐬?
(𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 '𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲'. 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞!)
@CHRISBARYOMUNS1@DianaAtwine@muyanga1988@SolomonSerwanjj@Solo_MDofficial@theumaofficial
You got me on the edge of my seat there for a while @LuckyMbabazi but eventually you threaded the argument well.
No money goes to the doc's pocket, we simply tell them what to buy & they get it, or else the surgery is canceled.
Very sad. Call me on your show with @gaetanokagwa