Tag Archives: medical bills

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Police Force will meet the medical bills of two-year-old ltakabir Kyakuhaire, who was hit by a stray bullet in Hoima city. The minor from Bulemwa village in Hoima City West Division has since been referred to Mulago National Referral Hospital for specialized medical attention. Kyakuhaire …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Law Society has appealed to its members for assistance to settle medical bills for one of their colleagues, Anthony Wameli. Although it’s not clear how much Wameli’s bill is, since September 2021, Wameli has been bedridden at Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private health service providers are stuck with patients, many of whom cannot afford the cost of treatment, but have also refused to leave the facilities and seek medical attention elsewhere. Grace Kiwanuka, the Executive Director for the Uganda Healthcare Federation says that since the height of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Director of Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID Paul Kato Tumuhimbise has ordered commanders of regional/district investigations departments to probe and apprehend all private health service care providers overcharging, retaining patients and bodies of their clients for failure to clear medical bills. In his internal Memo …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The parents of a 28-year-old man who was allegedly tortured want the police to foot the medical bills. Daniel Isabirye, a retail metal stall operator in Buwenge sub county was two weeks ago arrested and allegedly tortured by the police who were enforcing the curfew …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A team of private health service providers came under fire from the Covid-19 taskforce of Parliament for holding the bodies of Covid-19 victims and patients over unpaid bills. Several families whose relatives have succumbed to Covid-19 have failed to pick their bodies from private facilities …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twenty-one year-old Shaluwa Namukose, a resident of Mafubira ward in Northern division in Jinja city is rotting away without any help after being shot by police while dispersing protests along Mailo Mbili roundabout on February 18th, 2021. According to Namukose, when she was shot, detectives …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM) says it has been paying medical bills of supporters who were injured during election violence. Emmanuel Dombo, the party director of communication told Uganda Radio Network that supporters received support in form of transporting them to better medical facilities from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP is paying medical bills for 44 supporters who were tortured during the just concluded general elections. The majority of these were reportedly kidnapped and tortured by security while others returned from prisons in very bad shape. Joel Ssenyonyi, the NUP party …

John Katumba says he was brutalized by police and the army as he tried to reach out to the population during the presidential campaigns Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former independent presidential candidate John Katumba says he is in pain stemming from the extensive torture and beating he underwent at …