The top managers of troubled Alexandra Medical Centre are panicking after they were abandoned by the owners of the hospital as government intensified the investigations to establish the cause of death of Hallen Nakimuli the Kalangala district Woman Member of Parliament.
National Unity Platform (NUP) Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya announced that fellow leader Nakimuli died from Alexandra Medical facility where she had gone for a minor surgery and since then, the hospital managers have been pressurized to explain how the youthful legislator died.
The Chief Executive Officer of the hospital Dr Castro Kisuule issued a statement where he pleaded to the public for calmness as several investigations proceed.
However, this investigative website can exclusively report that the said statement fetched trouble for Dr Kisuule as the owners of the hospital quizzed him on why he issued a statement without their guidance.
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Highly placed sources at Mulago hospital where one of Nakimuli’s postmortem reports was made from revealed to Ono Bwino that after Dr Chris Baryomunsi the Minister for Information and National Guidance announced that Alexandra hospital is under investigation over Nakimuli’s death, a top official who has interest in the said hospital summoned a crisis meeting with other directors to strategise on how to handle the situation.
“The hospital was established by a retired medical doctor, but he entered into a deal with other experts to help him in the running several departments and he allowed them to come with their machines. For example, the X-ray machines are owned by one of the directors of a public hospital in town, so to save the hospitals reputation, the situation was supposed to be contained,” a source said.
He revealed that the said officer directed the directors not to comment on the matter noting that it is the reason why they muted their communications with the hospital managers as their contacts in government controled the situation.
He narrated that at first, the hospital managers thought that security was going to raid the hospital, cordon it off, declare the premise a crime scene, and make some arrests as it has been a practice when such incidents happen but it was not the case.
Even though the situation was being contained, hospital proprietors and senior medical experts narrated the troubles the hospital is facing in the healthcare business and the trauma the medical doctors who carried out the unsuccessful surgery operation on Nakimuli are going through.
Dr Lulume Bayiga the outgoing Buikwe South Member of Parliament and also the proprietor of Kampala International Medical Centre Kansanga revealed that any trained doctor will feel bad and it will take him a lot of time to recover when a high-profile person like Nakimuli dies in his hands.
“I feel what is going through the minds of those doctors, the trauma this incident caused to them. People are going to start getting scared knowing that they are the ones going to work on them in the theatre. Nakimuli’s death has also placed the hospital in bad light, so they need a lot of our prayers,” Lulume said.
Dr Twaha Kagabo the outgoing Bukoto South legislator and also the proprietor of alama memorial medical centre in Nansana, Gganda said that no doctor wishes his or her patience to die in their hands because it creates a dark spot on their career.
He pleaded that the hospital should not be blacklisted because of the incident, explaining that even though doctors are trained to treat, God is the one cures.
Both medical doctors warned hospital owners on employing incompetent people especially when it comes to handling patients in the theatre noting that the situation needs a lot of expert and experience
Gorreth Namugga a friend to the deceased and also the Mawogola South Member of Parliament revealed that Nakimuli went to the said medical facility for a fibroids surgery which was supposed to be carried out in January but she extended it so that she first finishes the 2026 political campaigns.
Nakimuli was buried on Thursday at her ancestral home in Luwero district and she was positively eulogized.
