Catherine Bekunda

Lovely lady. Communication specialist. Focused on being better, improving and impacting those around me. I seek to heal the world. God bless you

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

I want us to learn about the Holy Eucharist. A simple journey taken together in faith. Welcome aboard

[Dr. Oriba Dan Langoya @DrOribaDan]

In Memory of Dr. Mathew Lukwiya

In his final hours, he spoke to Sister Apio Anyai Angioletta, the paediatric nurse who had known him for years. She would later remember his exact words.
"Sister, things are worsening. I have tried to fight. The battle is almost over. Now I am seeing that I am also going. The time has come for me to go. That I know. I am going. But if I go, I will be at the doorway. Nobody is going to die now. I will tell my God that enough is enough."

Then he began to sing a hymn about war. Everyone in the room broke down. Sister Apio replied, "No, doctor, it will not be like that." But it was. On December 4th his breathing briefly stabilised. Later that evening his lungs began to haemorrhage. He died at 1:20am on December 5th, 2000.

He was buried at 4pm the same day. The coffin was sprayed with Jik bleach as it was lowered. Margaret asked if she could see him one last time and was refused. The body was considered too infectious.

He was placed in a grave he had chosen himself while he was dying, at the Grotto inside the hospital grounds, beside Dr. Lucille Teasdale and later Piero Corti. Teasdale had died in 1996 of AIDS, contracted while operating on an HIV-positive patient.
The student was buried beside his mentors.

And then something extraordinary happened. After Lukwiya's death, every remaining Ebola patient at Lacor survived. Not another single person died at the hospital. Sister Apio remembered the promise he had made on his deathbed: "I will tell my God that enough is enough." It is the kind of detail you would not believe if you read it in a novel.

By the time the WHO declared Uganda Ebola-free on February 6th, 2001, 425 confirmed and probable cases had been recorded, and 224 Ugandans had died, including thirteen health workers from Lacor alone.

The survival rate during the outbreak was nearly 50%, compared to as low as 10% in previous African outbreaks, largely because of the systems Lukwiya had built before anyone else even knew what was happening.

This is what the mainstream story leaves out. The intern who refused a teaching job in England. The doctor who walked into the bush instead of the nuns. The administrator who turned the hospital into a shelter for nine thousand people, most of them children, every night.

The Acholi son of a smuggler who topped his country in school, won the John Hay Prize at Liverpool, and still chose Gulu over everything else. By the time he made that final speech to his nurses, the heroism was already the entire shape of his life. The Ebola work only made it public.

Happy Heroes Day, Dr Matthew and all healthcare workers who sacrifice more than they should have to! #HeroesDay

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[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

@EricRSammons May God console them and show them direction. amen

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

I will participate in the run. Let us love humanity. We are all children of God

[AMDA Uganda @AMDAUganda]

AMDA Caravan Run 2025.

Date: Sunday, 13. 07. 2025
Location: Kitante Primary School
Time: 6:30am
Distance: 5KM & 10KM
Fee: 30K (Kit Included)
Register now via https://t.co/xXWKEgiC4d

The Run is a pre-event to the AMDA Caravan (29 - 31 August 2025) to Nyamitanga

#PilgrimsOfHope

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

Beautiful Uganda

[Aggrey___all 💯 @aggreykwangz]

Guess the place if you know Uganda very well

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

Never allow failure to become an option!!!

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

Wow. I love this God

[One White Frijole @Onewhitefrijole]

@CoffeewClassics “Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave”

—GK Chesterton

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

I love both faith and reason

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

"Neither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either."

~G.K. Chesterton
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[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

A great point here

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

~G.K. Chesterton
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[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

Give thanks for both the small and big miracles in life. That you are alive is a reason to be Joyful

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

“Thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

~G.K. Chesterton
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[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

I recently experienced this. Laughed at an issue that was supposed to make me cry. My sanity levels are way beyond normal. I fear myself sometimes.

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

“He is a sane man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.”

~G.K. Chesterton
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[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate... effort to persuade other people how good they are.”

~G.K. Chesterton
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[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”

~G.K. Chesterton
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[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

Take arms against a sea of troubles,
and in so doing, end them-William Shakespear

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

It's a beautiful day, ride and shine

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

Ulalalalalalalalalal

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

Heal the world in your small way. People are hurting so much. Do something about it.

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

Let your past pain make you braver and stronger, let your past victory encourage you to become better

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

Wake up and get things done

[Catherine Bekunda @cbeks]

@fobita @SandraMunduru @atalacaroline @AbodaJovanna @Nyapa_Ocan @josephine_anen Thank you. If you know you know😄