Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee-PAC, Central Government have recommended that Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, the former Mulago National Referral Hospital Executive Director be investigated and prosecuted for loss of funds meant for payment of interns and Senior House Officers. The committee also wants a …
Read More »PAC directs Mulago to allow interdicted ED access office
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (Central), Medard Sseggona has directed Mulago National Referral Hospital to allow the interdicted Executive Director, Dr. Baterana Byarugaba to temporarily access office. Sseggona directed the interim Mulago ED, Dr. Rosemary Byanyima to allow Byarugaba to access the office specifically …
Read More »Dr. Baterana petitions court to quash health monitoring unit report on Mulago
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The interdicted Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, wants court to throw out the evidence and charges brought against him by the State House Health Monitoring Unit on the basis of lack of jurisdiction. This comes after the hospital director was this …
Read More »Dr. Baterana interdicted from office
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, the embattled Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital has been interdicted. This is contained in a March 2, 2022 letter issued by the Health Ministry Permanent Secretary Dr. Diana Atwine. She has asked Dr. Baterana to hand over the office to …
Read More »Dr. Baterana charged with embezzlement, abuse of office
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have preferred charges of fraudulent accounting, abuse of office, embezzlement and causing financial loss to the government against Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, the executive director of Mulago National Referral Hospital. According to the State House Health Monitoring Unit, the above crimes were committed in …
Read More »Mulago boss arrested over fraudulent deals
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State House Health Monitoring Unit picked up Mulago National Referral Hospital boss, Dr. Baterana Byarugaba in connection to ongoing investigations into fraudulent deals amounting to Shillings 20.5 billion, URN has learnt. His arrest on Tuesday followed the arrest of four people believed to have …
Read More »Mulago hospital discharges 21 bomb blast victims
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities at Mulago National Referral Hospital have announced that 21 people who were injured in yesterday’s twin bomb blasts will be discharged today. Health officials said the 21 people who suffered minor injuries that have been attended to, can now recuperate from their homes. The …
Read More »How Mulago hospital responded to the bomb blast victims
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It was a normal day for Mulago National Referral Hospital on Tuesday morning November 16, 2021. The causality ward had less than ten patients, the majority of whom were accident victims. Only a few staff were on duty, most of them completing their morning rounds …
Read More »Mulago adds a hundred beds to accommodate more city riot causalities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mulago hospital is expanding on the bed capacity at the casualty ward in anticipation of more patients as a result of the city riots. The hospital management is creating space at new Mulago to add 100 beds for the purpose. Mulago hospital alone has since …
Read More »PROTESTS: Nine die during surgery at Mulago hospital
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nine of the people shot during protests following the arrest of the National Unity Platform-NUP party presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu on Wednesday died while undergoing surgery at Mulago National Referral Hospital. Speaking to journalists on Thursday afternoon, Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, the Executive Director Mulago …
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