{UAH} Child loses leg in wrong syphilis treatment
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Secretary Henry Ford Mirima,
Does the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom take a note of all these unforunate
but incredibly sad incidents so as to inform its own social strategy
and its relationship with the NRA government? I think incidents of
serious malpractice and lack of access to healthcare should form an
important part of the agenda of the Kingdom- the King must be more
activist in raising these issues and putting them in the public domain
so as to put the NRA regime to account. I know all the Bunyoro MPs are
NRA, so are not really bothered about the suffering of the ordinary
Banyoro, but the Kingdom can not afford to take such an attitude. It
has to step into the breech and try to mobilise the population to
bring the feral government to account.
George Okello
Child loses leg in wrong syphilis treatment
By David Ayebale
Posted Friday, September 25 2015 at 01:00
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Kibaale.
A five-year-old boy's leg has been amputated after he was injected
with a wrong drug thought to treat syphilis.
Robert Tugume, a resident of Kiryanga village in Kiryanga Sub-county,
Kibaale District, was according to her mother, Ms Penina Tuhaise,
taken to a clinic by his father after he developed syphilis-like sores
on the legs last Thursday.
Tugume's father rushed the child to a private clinic owned by one of
the health workers attached to Kiryanga Health Centre II on the same
day where the kid was injected with penicillin G Benzathine injection.
Talking to Daily Monitor on Tuesday, Tugume's mother said after the
injection, her son was the following day feeling a lot of pain and his
body got swolen. "My child's legs became cold and paralysed; the skin
turned black and looked like he was burnt.
He (Tugume) later developed a swelling on the part of his buttocks
where he was injected. When we took him back to the health worker, he
refused to attend to him," said Ms Tuhaise.
Efforts to get a comment from the in charge of Kiryanga Health Centre
II were futile as his phones were off. The mother added that she was
advised by the residents to take the child to Hoima Regional Referral
Hospital where his leg was amputated on Monday.
Dr Ian Asiimwe, a surgeon at the hospital who operated on Tugume said,
"He [Tugume] underwent a successful leg amputation surgery and his
condition will improve."
Asked whether he got any referral from Kiryanga Health Centre II, Dr
Asiimwe said, "No, we handled the boy basing on the complaints from
the mother but we also found out that the boy could have got a wrong
treatment."
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Does the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom take a note of all these unforunate
but incredibly sad incidents so as to inform its own social strategy
and its relationship with the NRA government? I think incidents of
serious malpractice and lack of access to healthcare should form an
important part of the agenda of the Kingdom- the King must be more
activist in raising these issues and putting them in the public domain
so as to put the NRA regime to account. I know all the Bunyoro MPs are
NRA, so are not really bothered about the suffering of the ordinary
Banyoro, but the Kingdom can not afford to take such an attitude. It
has to step into the breech and try to mobilise the population to
bring the feral government to account.
George Okello
Child loses leg in wrong syphilis treatment
By David Ayebale
Posted Friday, September 25 2015 at 01:00
SHARE THIS STORY
Kibaale.
A five-year-old boy's leg has been amputated after he was injected
with a wrong drug thought to treat syphilis.
Robert Tugume, a resident of Kiryanga village in Kiryanga Sub-county,
Kibaale District, was according to her mother, Ms Penina Tuhaise,
taken to a clinic by his father after he developed syphilis-like sores
on the legs last Thursday.
Tugume's father rushed the child to a private clinic owned by one of
the health workers attached to Kiryanga Health Centre II on the same
day where the kid was injected with penicillin G Benzathine injection.
Talking to Daily Monitor on Tuesday, Tugume's mother said after the
injection, her son was the following day feeling a lot of pain and his
body got swolen. "My child's legs became cold and paralysed; the skin
turned black and looked like he was burnt.
He (Tugume) later developed a swelling on the part of his buttocks
where he was injected. When we took him back to the health worker, he
refused to attend to him," said Ms Tuhaise.
Efforts to get a comment from the in charge of Kiryanga Health Centre
II were futile as his phones were off. The mother added that she was
advised by the residents to take the child to Hoima Regional Referral
Hospital where his leg was amputated on Monday.
Dr Ian Asiimwe, a surgeon at the hospital who operated on Tugume said,
"He [Tugume] underwent a successful leg amputation surgery and his
condition will improve."
Asked whether he got any referral from Kiryanga Health Centre II, Dr
Asiimwe said, "No, we handled the boy basing on the complaints from
the mother but we also found out that the boy could have got a wrong
treatment."
--
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