Muniini K. Mulera

Medical interns need help from their elders in their struggle for recognition as doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 2, 20240 comments

#Doctors #Uganda #Makerere #Mulago #Interns

Photo: left to right - E. M. K. Muwazi, E.S. Lubulwa, Banoba in 1934. These doctors were officially called Senior African Medical Assistants. (© Makerere Medical School Archives) From the first three graduates of Makerere Medical School in 1927 – Antonio ...

Government should change attitude towards medical doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 5, 20240 comments

#Doctors #Uganda #Makerere #Mulago #Interns

Last week’s video recordings of some Uganda Police officers verbally and physically abusing Ugandan doctors caused great distress to many of us. The victims were fresh graduates from the famous Makerere University Medical School. Their crime? Peaceful assembly at the medical ...

Doctors D’Arbela and Owor, our unsung heroes turn ninety

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 8, 20240 comments

#DArbela #Owor #Mulago #Makerere #Uganda #Kampala

Photo: Mulago Hospital and Makerere Medical School campus as it was when Dr. Paul G. M. D’Arbela and Dr. Raphael Owor were new graduates. (Unknown photographer) ****************** Uganda has a very long list of distinguished and honourable men and women in ...

Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi, Dr. Joseph Bukenya and The Class of 1977

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 23, 20230 comments

#Kiyingi #Bukenya #Makerere #Mulago #Class #1977

Photo: Dr. John Mary "Joseph" Bukenya It has been a very dark October for The Class of 1977, that being the year that we graduated from Makerere Medical School, Kampala. Our ranks have been thinned once again, with the deaths of two dear brothers with whom we shared five ...

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 ...

No, Oulanyah was not poisoned

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 29, 20220 comments

#Oulanyah #Lokori #Uganda #Mulago #poisoning #Opiyo #Oloya

Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah died of a devastating natural disease. He was not poisoned. How do I know? Dr. Opiyo Oloya said so. When Opiyo Oloya speaks, I listen. When he tells me something, I know it is true. When he knows the truth, he speaks with confidence. When ...

Honour Oulanyah by addressing why he died in a distant land

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 22, 20220 comments

#Oulanyah #Lokori #Uganda #Mulago

The premature death of Jacob L’okori Oulanyah, Uganda’s speaker of parliament, a few days shy of turning 57, has dampened my spirit. Another human being, a fellow citizen, silenced by ruthless death, reminding us of our mortality. Oulanyah’s status in ...

Is Museveni’s life more important than that of a peasant farmer?

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 14, 20220 comments

#Museveni #Oulanyah #Uganda #Mulago

Uganda Parliament Speaker Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah’s reported evacuation to Seattle, USA for medical treatment has triggered a predictable backlash. The reported payment of $500,000 to Uganda Airlines to fly him to America has been the focus of the angry reaction from a ...

A surgeon's struggle to serve patients at Uganda's Mulago Hospital - By Dr. William Manyilirah, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon Uganda Heart Institute

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersOctober 29, 20181 comments

#Mulago #Manyilirah

Dear colleagues. I don't normally write on this WhatsApp group, but I've been forced to do so. This morning, 26th October, my team and I went to the Main Operating Theatre (OT) of Mulago Hospital Complex to operate on two thoracic cases. The first patient was supposed ...

Why it takes a degree of insanity to be a surgeon at Mulago Hospital

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersOctober 30, 20180 comments

#Mulago #Manyilirah #Buwembo #Uganda #Health #care #Uganda

When Dr. Joseph Buwembo, an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, visited Uganda in 2012, his mission was not only to see his relatives and enjoy his homeland, but also to give back to his people. He offered free neurosurgery on a baby that ...