What Kisubi Hospital is offering is epidural analgesia.
Here is how it works:
A specialist inserts a very thin tube into the epidural space, the area just outside the spinal cord in your lower back. Through this tube, pain-blocking medication is delivered continuously throughout labour.
The result:
✅Uterus contracts normally
✅ Cervix opens normally
✅ Baby descends normally
But the pain signals traveling from your womb to your brain are intercepted before they arrive.
You feel pressure. Tightening. The urge to push.
Not pain.
You remain fully awake, fully conscious, and fully in control. You can speak, move your upper body, and participate in the birth of your child.
This is not a caesarean section. This is not general anaesthesia.
This is natural labour, with the pain removed.
It is safe, evidence-based, and used in delivery rooms worldwide.
The only question is why it isn't available in every hospital in Uganda.
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
Pres. @KagutaMuseveni and the late Pres. Nyerere know the history of Banyamulenge in Eastern DRC, who are being denied by the DRC government as non Congolese.
Today I want to talk about the people we call Banyarwanda in the Ugandan constitution. Their (great) parents left the present day Rwanda many years ago, freeing political persecution from the then government of Rwanda.
Many of these Banyarwanda made great contributions to the liberation struggles of 1979 and 1986. Some shed their blood for Uganda to be free.
Later those who liberated Uganda like Pres. @PaulKagame and his colleagues engaged in the liberation struggle/war using Uganda as base and liberated Rwanda in 1994. Gen. @sejudav was one of the first UPDF soldiers to visit Rwanda after the liberation. He knows the state of Rwanda first hand after genocide. I don't think that Banyarwanda who decided to return to Rwanda in 1994 and thereafter were asked to apply for citizenship.
Those who decided to stay in Uganda, remained Ugandan citizens. But somehow, we treated them differently. They were denied passports, etc and this is public knowledge. So when Ugandans like Dr. Muganga were denied passports to go and study in Canada, the Rwandan government gave them passports. Did Dr. Muganga first apply for citizenship in Rwanda to get a passport? I don't think so. But we forget their history so fast. Why would the government of Pres. Kagame who suffered the same discrimination not know how to help Ugandans of Rwandese origin who are denied their rights in Uganda?
Most likely Dr. Muganga's parents and great parents were born in Uganda. Dr. Muganga was born in Uganda. Holding a Rwandese passport does not make him a dual citizen unless if we have forgotten their history. We should be asking him to renounce his Canadian citizenship, which he has done.
Even the little gains we see is because the Bavandimwe directly organised themselves and engaged Pres. Museveni.
So when Dr. Muganga goes to the grave of his parents and cries, the ordinary Ugandan thinks he is desperate for a Ministerial appointment. He is not. Some of these Ugandans lost their relatives during the genocide of 1993-94 in Rwanda. This discrimination in parliament is traumatic and it brings back those memories of even being denied passports in Uganda and now being persecuted for getting a passport from Rwanda to enable him to study in Canada. If you were him what would you have done? I think you would have gotten that passport to go and study in Canada. It because of that decision that he is making a contribution to Uganda; the passport enabled him to study in Canada.
If he didn't apply for citizenship before getting the Rwandese passport that expired, what do you want him to renounce?
Parliamentary Committee on Appointments should publicly apologize for traumatising these Ugandans of Rwandese origin. We should never forget history& circumstances like those that made Dr. Muganga get a Rwandese passport just to access education in Canada. The circumstances necessitated it. Read the preamble of our Ugandan constitution.
So why are we bent on asking him to renounce Rwandese Citizenship on the basis of a passport. In normal circumstances you cannot get a passport of the country before you become a citizen, but we know that this was not the case in the case of Dr. Muganga.
Dr. Muganda should be asked to renounce Canadian citizenship, which he has done but not Rwandan, which he doesn't have.
Dr. Muganga is a Uganda with full rights including being appointed and serving as a Minister. Pres. Museveni shouldn't undermine the gains he has achieved with Bavandimwe and declined to appoint Dr. Muganga minister.
As a country we need to end marginalisation of minorities. The Banyarwanda born and living in Uganda are Ugandans like any one of us.
So it is not too late for the Parliament of Uganda to do the right thing, i.e. approve the appointment of Dr. Muganga as Minister of State for Internal Affairs.
Explainer: Doctor to Patient ratio in Uganda is 1:25,000, way below WHO recommendation of 1:1000. This is one doctor attending to more than half of the entire sitting capacity of Namboole stadium. Government’s new Medical Internship policy could make this worse, here’s how 👇🏾
Now that Mr Andrew Mwenda is done issuing a groveling, much needed apology to President @KagutaMuseveni; as well as telling us how he personally knows Bill Gates, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, can we try and understand that DEI Pharma thing using basic common sense?
First off; it appears that there’s general agreement that if Uganda wants to have regional industry leaders across different sectors, the state must have a hand and that this can’t be shrouded in mystery, backdoor dealings and corruption.
This is not up for debate.
With the foregoing, I’ll invite you to scrutinize these investments dispassionately.
I’ll start with DEI Pharma coz I’ve spent 20 years building in this space. I know it quite well.
From available information, the @GovUganda has invested 1 trillion shillings in the Matugga based pharmaceutical greenfield for a 9% stake.
This figure isn’t easily verifiable because a lot of the documents underpinning these public investments are nearly impossible to get. Even the LOP didn’t seem to know . A clear red flag. (See video in frame 1)
We rely on parliamentary committee clips and statements from people like @DrWakida who is the board chairman of that entity from which he solicits “friendly loans” in millions of dollars. But that’s a story for another day.
Going with the UGX 1 trillion shilling investment, Uganda is valuing this entity-by a guy whose entire experience in pharma manufacturing doesn’t go beyond failing at running a flour mill-at just under 3 Billion dollars.
For African comparison; Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd, the South African conglomerate that’s the largest manufacturer in Africa, has a market cap of 3.6 Billion Dollars (see frame 2).
By local comparison, CIPLA-Quality Chemicals has a market cap of UGX 511 Billion or 132 million dollars (see frame 3).
At the time the government made that investment in DEI, the market cap of Cipla-QC was less than UGX 250 Billion.
In fact, back in 2023, an investment firm from Mauritius bought controlling stake for under $30 million (here: https://t.co/RULbhXYFTz)
Basically, the government values this DEI entity more than 25 times higher than a proven pharmaceutical manufacturer of global repute; one backed by the third largest pharmaceutical manufacturer in India; with a history going back nearly 100 years!
This is an entity run by a guy who lied to the country that he had found a cure for covid and embarrassed us to no end; a guy who seems to essentially buy publications and slaps his name on them; a guy severally accused of conning people in mineral deals (see frame 4 and other sources on request).
You don’t have to be a CFA, CPA, MBA or a finance genius to know that this is theft by valuation.
Mr Magoola, you might recall, said upon receipt of the first government investment that the company didn’t even need government money but nonetheless, it was going to pay it back in no time. Same company at the time that had its assets on auction for failure to service debt.
Same guy is said to be back for an additional 1.6 trillion shillings in government investment.
For this, he has piles of cassava in Kamuli and badly pronounced monoclonal antibody brands to show for our investment. (@ntvuganda did a recent piece on this.
You can find it here: https://t.co/qSPwiP7rOL)
If indeed the government was serious about growing the pharmaceutical industry, they could have spread this investment around into already existing industries and put in place some market protection measures. Putting all this cash in the hands of a man with at best, a dubious history of financial management and no discernible pharmaceutical manufacturing success is a risk at proportions that are hard to describe.
We have the example of Malta to show how smart investment in pharmaceutical technology/industry can actually drive economic growth.
Why don’t we take those examples instead of betting on snake-oil vendors?
How are these promoters chosen?
#DEIPharmaHeist
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Uganda marks a massive medical win today as we discharges Sande Stephen the nation’s first-ever bone marrow transplant patient. After battling multiple myeloma, Stephen’s journey proves that world-class, life-saving care is no longer a distant dream,