Tatian Muwanga; MBChB, MSc

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is serious! Either we are being played to maintain attention, or this is fun!

Let him have at a sequestrectomy or ORIF!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣 tsk tsk

LRRH Receives Modern Paediatric Theatre Equipment Worth UGX 500 Million from Kids Operating Room Lira Regional Referral Hospital (LRRH) has today, Friday, May 22, received a consignment of modern paediatric theatre equipment donated by United Kingdom-based partner, Kids Operating Room (Kids OR), valued at approximately UGX 500 million. The donated equipment includes operating beds, theatre trolleys, operating drums, complete anesthesia machine sets, recovery monitors, and chairs for waiting areas. The equipment will support the operationalisation of a fully-fledged, state-of-the-art children’s surgical ward at the hospital. Speaking after receiving the equipment, the Acting Hospital Director, Dr. Andrew Odur, applauded Kids OR for the timely and significant support, noting that it comes at a critical moment as the hospital continues to strengthen paediatric surgical services. “This support has come at the right time when the hospital is expanding and improving paediatric surgical care. Once installed, the equipment will greatly enhance patient safety and provide a more conducive working environment for our surgeons and healthcare teams,” Dr. Odur said. Paediatric Surgeon Dr. Charles Newton Odongo noted that the new equipment will significantly improve access to specialised paediatric surgical services for children from Northern and Eastern Uganda, reducing the burden of long-distance referrals and travel for treatment. Dr. Odongo further revealed that the hospital has plans to establish fellowship training programmes in paediatric surgery in the future, aimed at increasing the number of specialists in the region and improving child healthcare outcomes. Installation of the equipment will be undertaken by a team of experts skilled in medical technology, working closely with the hospital’s biomedical engineers to ensure sustainability and proper maintenance of the machines. The equipment is expected to be fully installed and operational by the beginning of June 2026. Lira Regional Referral Hospital currently conducts approximately 10,000 surgeries annually, with children accounting for about 25 percent of all surgical procedures performed at the facility. Since the establishment of the pediatric surgery unit, more than 3000 children have benefited from complex surgical procedures. The hospital management expressed gratitude to Kids OR and all development partners committed to improving healthcare services for children in Uganda. @MinofHealthUG @JaneRuth_Aceng @DrOdur73456 @ainbyoo

@ShemOpolot I love your optimism, Sir. But this is most likely for your kids generation. The exploitative practices of HIC are not about to end. And aid is fast becoming transactional which will mean higher debt. We all know which services are sacrificed to afford payments.

@Tatian27 Our donor dependence will subside with better leadership and straighter spines. The death of USAID helped accelerate this transition. It’ll take time, but I think it’ll happen.

All the expertise in the world, needs money. The intensity of the ground response is affecting nearly everything from ports of entry to day to day life. Let’s not bring neocolonialism into this. If that spark catches fire….

@ShemOpolot Haha, the political economy of Ebola Response. Even DOGE apologized for cutting funding during the last mini outbreak🤣🤣. Certainly, theirs is to catastrophize and make money off IP from vaccine candidates. Ours is to work&make money from the donor money🤣🤣

@Tatian27 Our best response is the outcomes. The same way we handled COVID despite their catastrophization, we’ll handle this. I’d say we completely ignore them if we weren’t so economically interdependent.

@ShemOpolot They aren’t collateral,Sir. LMIC countries are a monolithic entity as far as the global North is concerned. Not only can they negatively impact HIC health systems, but, and especially-global trade. We can lament all we want🤣🤣🤣

@Tatian27 All serious disease outbreaks are disruptive. The framing of the issues is important. Several things are true at the same time here, including what you say. I simply call out that countries like Uganda are collateral in U.S. partisan wars over the direction of U.S. foreign policy

@OliviaNalubwama @Johnblanshe_m Carol must be shaking her head…all these years…🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Johnblanshe_m Then you don't know the inner pages of the Observer🤭 . It might be the longest standing column in the Observer.

Dear Observer, why?. We don't know you for sex talk.

If Museveni remains in power until 2031, Comrade Yasin Ssekitoleko aka Machete—who was arrested during the 2021 general elections—will have spent 10 years in incarceration. What makes it even more painful is that he has not had the opportunity to see a judge and have his case concluded, yet he continues to lose years of his life behind bars. #FreeYasinMachete #FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersInUganda

Hear me out! They are actually right. A hotspot of any infectious disease of high mortality doesn’t actually know any border. Uganda and the whole of Eastern Congo are one country in red now.

@rkalyes1 You set a target, draft an engagement plan, recruit some individuals for in-person outreach, and launch the campaign. It will work.

@Tatian27 Who has done it successfully. I saw none show up at our 100 years despite inviting them. Some are even alumni!

🔥 When will the 'rich' Ugandans begin doing acts of kindness like this? share.google/W4jpKFTIyoKQON…

I have a question(s). Humor me. I am assuming that the registry spans public-private ICUs as well as adult-paediatric ICUS (if PICUs are a thing and NICUs are added). Where is the registry housed and is there an option to plug into DHIS2, and have national level audits?

@AttoGladys Solomon must have been wondering why everyone was mispronouncing his name🤣🤣🤣

My dream was right afterall😂😂

@michaelokecho Or you just don’t know how to read time. It happens.

Has society forgotten that the dream for better health is the same as the dream for social justice? Today we announced a new @TheLancet Commission on Activsm & health, chaired by myself, @vanyaradzayi and Jennie Gamlin. I am beyond excited. Read more👇🏾 thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Kwata ka repost! May the force be with you! You will need it🤣🤣

The avenger should take interest in this matter!!

@TheMutaD Assured. But, she can claim a surplus from donors, and given our Uganda👀…only the sovereignty bill can catch her🤣🤣

No way in hell! 1. The 90 billion, if at all it is accurate, would be revenue, not profit. 2. 5 years = 15 terms. You need a minimum of 4,000 kids paying UGX 1.5m each to generate 6 billion a term to get to 90 billion in 15 terms. 3. Bukedea Comprehensive doesn't pay that.