Richardson

In Memory of Dr. Mathew Lukwiya In his final hours, he spoke to Sister Apio Anyai Angioletta, the paediatric nurse who had known him for years. She would later remember his exact words. "Sister, things are worsening. I have tried to fight. The battle is almost over. Now I am seeing that I am also going. The time has come for me to go. That I know. I am going. But if I go, I will be at the doorway. Nobody is going to die now. I will tell my God that enough is enough." Then he began to sing a hymn about war. Everyone in the room broke down. Sister Apio replied, "No, doctor, it will not be like that." But it was. On December 4th his breathing briefly stabilised. Later that evening his lungs began to haemorrhage. He died at 1:20am on December 5th, 2000. He was buried at 4pm the same day. The coffin was sprayed with Jik bleach as it was lowered. Margaret asked if she could see him one last time and was refused. The body was considered too infectious. He was placed in a grave he had chosen himself while he was dying, at the Grotto inside the hospital grounds, beside Dr. Lucille Teasdale and later Piero Corti. Teasdale had died in 1996 of AIDS, contracted while operating on an HIV-positive patient. The student was buried beside his mentors. And then something extraordinary happened. After Lukwiya's death, every remaining Ebola patient at Lacor survived. Not another single person died at the hospital. Sister Apio remembered the promise he had made on his deathbed: "I will tell my God that enough is enough." It is the kind of detail you would not believe if you read it in a novel. By the time the WHO declared Uganda Ebola-free on February 6th, 2001, 425 confirmed and probable cases had been recorded, and 224 Ugandans had died, including thirteen health workers from Lacor alone. The survival rate during the outbreak was nearly 50%, compared to as low as 10% in previous African outbreaks, largely because of the systems Lukwiya had built before anyone else even knew what was happening. This is what the mainstream story leaves out. The intern who refused a teaching job in England. The doctor who walked into the bush instead of the nuns. The administrator who turned the hospital into a shelter for nine thousand people, most of them children, every night. The Acholi son of a smuggler who topped his country in school, won the John Hay Prize at Liverpool, and still chose Gulu over everything else. By the time he made that final speech to his nurses, the heroism was already the entire shape of his life. The Ebola work only made it public. Happy Heroes Day, Dr Matthew and all healthcare workers who sacrifice more than they should have to! #HeroesDay # *Copied*

🚨 @CHRISBARYOMUNS1 @DrAyumeCharles Does the Health Service Commission recruit doctors based on who paid their fees government or parents? Because patients NEVER ask that They only care if the person at their bedside knows what they’re doing. @MinofHealthUG officials never learn and give themselves time to think. 📌 An intern is not a student any more, so for the MOH segregate interns based on sponsorship is total madness. ➡️ An intern is a Junior House Officer. FULL STOP. Govt-sponsored, self-sponsored, in public, private or faith-based hospitals same work, same responsibility, same risk. ➡️whether they go to Government facilities or private or faithbased hospitals they are interns. 🔥🔥 This obsession with punishing interns from private universities isn’t policy, it’s pure incompetence and laziness in thinking. We thought the President appointed people with fresh ideas. Instead, we’ve been handed a clique of clueless gatekeepers at the @MinofHealthUG managers Who want to lockout a child of a market woman , a daughter of a Boda man. A son of an office assistant at Ministry of health. what a shame. Until interns are treated as the doctors they already are, it’s NOT YET UHURU for interns. Govt should not expect to have free labor without investment. Parents train Doctors for you and still you expect them work free. @TheUMAofficial @ugandalihtss @parliament_Ug @jessica_alupo @JoelSsenyonyi @AdekeAnna @ShamimNambassa

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