Muniini K. Mulera

Birds and people

By AtwokiEast AfricaApril 19, 20160 comments

There was an item on the news today that dinosaurs started losing the battle for survival fifty million years before the asteroid strike that finally wiped them out. It is surmised that splitting up of continents and climatic change brought down the curtain on their existence and ...

Canada to legalize physician-assisted dying

By Muniini K. MuleraCanadaApril 15, 20160 comments

Prompted by a Supreme Court decision, the Government of Canada has tabled Bill C-14 for the purpose of legalizing physician assisted dying.The bill allows people who have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability, and whose death is "reasonably ...

Mental Health in Africa: New approaches to an old problem

By ThaddyApril 15, 20160 comments

By Professor Thaddeus P. Ulzen* The problem of mental health is as old as the ages but I am not entirely certain that I have all the new approaches that will be required. I prefer to use the term mental illnesses rather than mental illness because the brain, as complex as it ...

When misdiagnosis means a twenty hour journey to and from a major hospital

By Sabrina KitakaUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 5, 20161 comments

When mis diagnosis means in a twenty hour journey to and from a major hospital: ‘inappropriate referral’ By: Dr.Sabrina Kitaka We were completing a 6 hour ward round on a hot Thursday morning at the Infectious Diseases Ward at the Mulago National Referral Hospital. ...

Yes, TB Meningitis can be treated in Uganda, and better still it can be prevented

By Sabrina KitakaUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 13, 20162 comments

By Sabrina.B.Kitaka Case Presentation: T.O (not his initials) was a 2 year old boy who was the 1st born to both his parents. He presented to the emergency unit of the Mulago National Referral Hospital on 18th January 2016 with a history of fever and refusal to feed for 2 days. He ...

Uganda's Health Care System at Crossroads; No Functional Chain of Survival Systems

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 2, 20160 comments

Currently, there are very few functioning Ambulances in the country, and where ambulances exist, they may not have fuel or drivers. Many times, patients with life threatening emergencies are told to go to the next high level health facility, only to wait by the road side for public ...

Uganda's Health Care System at Crossroads; Re-thinking Our Priorities.

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 1, 20160 comments

The Health care system in Uganda is at the moment described as inadequate, and holds no promise for its population in meeting and addressing the current health care challenges and the demands of the people of Uganda. As a result of the inefficient health care infrastructure, ...

Greetings

By Karuhanga InnocentMarch 31, 20161 comments

Greetings to you all. My names are Karuhanga Innocent living in Toronto-Ontario. What an amazing way of sharing thoughts and experiences, I was fired up by the title "fireplace" typical of who we are as proud Africans, sitting around a fire place and telling famous ...

THANKS

By Bonny M KyamugabirweMarch 29, 20161 comments

Greetings to all who will and have congregate/d here. I just wanted to post this my first message, to express my sheer delight in the prospect of being able to be in touch with my people [ in/from Kigezi and East Africa] and to be apprised of issues that matter to us from ...

Why Public Education is Suspect Number One in Killing Creativity.

By Alvin KatoMarch 29, 20160 comments

I would like to share concerns about the dinosaur that is Public Education. In my opinion, we are dealing with the current unemployment issues in a way of treating a symptom without paying due attention to the disease. I would like to take a moment to point out the things that may ...

The Lunatic Express: Contribution of the Uganda Railway to the port and socio-economic development of Kenya and East Africa

By Juvenal ShiunduMarch 13, 20161 comments

Long before Nairobi, or any other hinterland town, was established, Mombasa was an ancient city of more than 1,000 years. Mombasa old port was a gateway to the interior for hundreds of years where Arab traders came with their dhows and the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama arrived ...

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WHAT LIES UNDERNEATH

By Susan GithukuMarch 15, 20161 comments

The history books will write that in the region where I was born, democracy was at war and the constitutions that were drawn up had been scripted on low cost paper. Decades ago I was an avid student of history. I could remember details of inane events at the drop of a ...

Normal Childhood sexuality: a heinous sin of self pollution

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 10, 20161 comments

Few things shock my people more than being told that children are sexual beings just like their parents. To hear that masturbation is a perfectly normal activity even among infants might drive some to call the morality police. Conjecture, bias, superstition, fossilized cultural ...

Childhood to Old Age Image of Uganda’s Long Trudge to Nationhood

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaMarch 10, 20162 comments

Childhood to Old Age Image of Uganda’s Long Trudge to Nationhood As one enters Entebbe Town, right after St Mark’s Anglican Church, there is a lone tree on the right-hand-side standing in the middle of a small open well-mowed green area. It is called The ...

Principles for participation at Mulera's Fireplace

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 11, 20160 comments

To post anything at Mulera’s Fireplace, you must fully accept and comply with these simple principles: We provide an open, easily accessible and honest forum for East Africans, friends of East Africa and other world citizens with an interest in East Africa. We encourage everyone ...

Preservation of our culture

By BB atwookiEast AfricaMarch 10, 20162 comments

Written by BB Atwooki "Preservation of our Cultural Heritage" Over the past two decades, as I have travelled across Africa, nothing has been more inspiring than the different cultures that I have experienced first hand. This is even more so now that I ...