{UAH} Obituary: Dr. Leo de Souza, orthopedic surgeon who escaped Idi Amin's Uganda | Star Tribune

One night in 1971, at her home in Kampala, Uganda, Dolly de Souza got a frightening phone call from an anonymous caller who said her husband, a doctor, was in danger of being fed to the crocodiles.

Dr. Leo de Souza, born in Tanzania and educated in India and England, was a surgeon at a public hospital in Uganda's capital. De Souza was apolitical, but had treated members of the former president's family and tribe, which was being purged by the murderous Idi Amin.

De Souza fled with his family to Minnesota.

De Souza died of congestive heart failure on March 22. He was 89.

De Souza was born in 1926 to a Goa, India-born corporate accountant in Tanzania.

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