Tag Archives: Mulago Hospital

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Embattled Mulago National Referral Hospital Executive Director, Dr. Baterena Byarugaba has handed over office to deputy director Dr. Rosemary Byanyima, after being interdicted by Health Ministry Permanent Secretary Dr Diana Atwine last week. Byarugaba was arrested last week after investigations by the Health Monitoring Unit linked …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private pharmacies that have been operating within Mulago National referral hospital have been kicked out following a directive by health minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng. The minister instructed the National Drug Authority (NDA) to enforce closure of all private facilities operating within public health facilities. According …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital, Dr. Baterana Byaruhanga has been arrested. The State House Health Monitoring Unit led by its Director Warren Namara picked up Dr. Byaruhanga on Tuesday afternoon for alleged mismanagement of the national referral hospital. According to Namara, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliamentary Committee on Health has picked interest in probing the existence and operations of private pharmacies inside Mulago National Referral Hospital. First Pharmacy and Ecopharm are the two privately owned pharmacies selling ‘specialised’ drugs to patients in Mulago Hospital. While meeting Dr. Byarugaba Baterana, …

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 …

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 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Byarugaba Baterana, the Executive Director Mulago National Referral Hospital wants the government to introduce a policy stopping medical workers employed by the government from working in private facilities. Addressing the newly inaugurated board of Mulago National Referral Hospital, Dr. Baterana noted that one of …