Muniini K. Mulera

Depressing Ugandan funeral speeches extolling treatment abroad

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 18, 20250 comments

#Uganda #Health #Medical #Tourism #Beti #Kamya

The deaths of one’s relatives, friends, peers and famous people tend to focus one’s mind on that inescapable fate. One hears comments like “death is on the rampage,” “there are too many deaths these days,” and “we must live as though ...

Corrupt alliance between Ugandan doctors and Indian hospitals hurts patients

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersNovember 6, 20181 comments

#Medical #tourism #Ugandan #doctors #Indian #doctors #Indian #hospitals #medical #ethics

When Dr. Nuwa Masinde Muliro, a senior surgeon in Kampala, referred his patient to what he believed to be a reputable Health Centre in India, he did not expect anything except a consultation report and, hopefully, news of a good outcome. Instead the first communication Dr. Muliro ...

Quality, not quantity of doctors, must be Uganda’s priority

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 9, 20240 comments

#Uganda #doctors #medical #schools

Whereas full employment and continued education of all recent medical graduates in Uganda is of utmost urgency, it should be accompanied by concurrent, independent external reviews of the fourteen medical schools in the country. Thirteen of these medical schools have been started ...

Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba: an excellent choice as President of UMA

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 19, 20220 comments

#Edith #NakkuJoloba #UMA #Uganda #Medical #Association #Makerere #Mulago

The election of Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba on Sunday December 18 as the new president of Uganda Medical Association (UMA) is excellent news. It restores the 58-year-old organization to a path its founders and sustainers envisaged, namely, a robust organization that promotes and maintains ...

Doctors’ apathy and Uganda Medical Association’s problems

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 12, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #Ruskin #Cook #Odonga #Kasirye #Senbeguya #Semambo #Mwesigye #Mungherera #KibukaMusoke #Billington #UMA #BMA #Oleo

Photo: Prof. Alexander Mwa Odonga MB ChB, FRCS, LMS (EA), Dip. Med. (EA), President of the BMA (Uganda Branch) 1964, President of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa 1971-1972, Dean of Makerere Medical School, 1975-1977. ********************* Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, who knelt ...

Dr. Samuel Oledo has disqualified himself from leadership of Uganda’s doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 5, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #UMA #Oledo

The current president of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has brought great shame and embarrassment to the profession of medicine. While speaking at the Patriotism for Youth and Investment Symposium at Kololo Independence Grounds on Saturday December 3, Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, ...

Dr. Apuuli Sanyu Byabanyagi: a patriot betrayed by his government

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 6, 20210 comments

#Byabanyagi #Makerere #Medical #School

This time fifty years ago, young men and women in various parts of Africa, preparing to write their university entrance examinations, probably did not have death on their minds. Not their own or that of close colleagues with whom they were preparing to conquer the world. Among ...

Like the Proverbial Bad Penny……I had turned up again - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda EducationSeptember 21, 20172 comments

#Makerere #Medical #School #Class #of #1977

Photo: Class of 1977, Makerere University Medical School. (Photo credit: Medical Illustration Department, Makerere.) Throughout my teenage years, I used to suffer from acute attacks of sore throat especially during the hot and dry December holidays. On one such occasion, ...

Grateful that I chose a career in medicine - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 21, 20170 comments

#Nannono #medicine #medical #school #makerere

Students continue to graduate from the eleven or so universities in my country during this month of March. I graduated forty years ago and by then, there was one university: Makerere University. Currently there are six public universities. Forty years today, I ...

Forty years later, not ready to hang up the stethoscope

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 20, 20170 comments

#muniini #mulera #makerere #medical #school #medicine #graduation

It has been forty years since our class took the final bow from undergraduate life at Makerere University. We had shared five long years of learning, of pushing each other to excel, of building friendships and of supporting each other through very difficult experiences. We ...