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By Sylvia
In Fort-Portal–
The Fort-portal municipality mayor his worship; Rev. Kintu Muhanga Willy has condemned the dreadful manner in which public hospital staff are handling patients who come seeking treatment.
He says that many patients continue to die from hospitals after being abandoned by medical workers. He describes the trend as unfortunate in a democratic country like Uganda.

The charged mayor while giving an example of Fort-portal Regional Referral Hospital referred to the previous death of Mr. Freedom Mwesige a primary head teacher at Kahinju primary school who was recently buried.

He says that the head teacher breathed his last a few minutes after he was operated at the regional hospital. The mayor who claimed his presence at the facility by the time the fallen head-teacher died says that,immediately after an operation doctors without certifying the status of the patient left their way.
Muhanga a critic of the nature of health system in the country says that him together with relatives of the deceased were helpless after being shunned by senior doctors. Medical intern nurses tried to save the head-teacher’s life but eventually died because of lack of skills and capacity.

Speaking to our reporter mayor said that an unknown number of mothers and babies at FRRH are crying for help since the few intern nurses can’t manage complicated issues.

He added that every time people see their dear ones dying in hands of medical staff at Fort-Portal hospital because they have no money to bribe doctors.
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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
In Bushenyi—
Government has been challenged to take immediate action to ban fake acalacides in local markets in a bid to control ticks which are becoming a problem in dairy farming.
The call was yesterday sounded by a researcher and consultant; Cryton Arinanye during a one day public lecture organized by Ankole Western University in Sheema municipality, Sheema district.
He said dairy farmers lose a number of animals as a result of ticks that are becoming resistant to all types of drugs due to fake acalacides.
Reliable sources say heads of cattle died recently in Rubiriizi district as a result of farmers using fake acalacides.
Alinanye attributed persistent ticks in dairy farming to government’s failure to ban the fake acalacides.
He said that in their research, they found out that authority is in hands of only president Museveni thus a reason why fake acalacides are still being sold in local markets.
The main presenter was Prof.Anne Matte from Aarth University in Denmark who presented her preliminary research on coffee and dairy farming.
At the lecture, one of the participants and a farmer; Yasse Mubangizi blamed the Government for militarizing NAADS program which is being supervised by unqualified military personnel.
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BY WILBER MUHWEZI KASIBANTE
IN BUSHENYI–
Police in Bushenyi have in custody seven moslems on allegations of trespassing and attacking their fellow Muslims at Basajabalaba Mosque in Ishaka.

Police spokesperson for greater Bushenyi ;SP.Martial Tumusiime says preliminary investigations reveal that over 60 people from Kampala last night came aboard two coaster buses and attacked a group of muslems guarding the mosque.

In self defense, the mosque guards overpowered the attackers and injured many of them with pangas before police intervened to defuse the situation.

Before police came, a number of the attackers had sustained serious injuries thus bleeding excessively.

Seven of the attackers were arrested while others were rushed to KIU teaching Hospital in Ishaka in critical condition.
Police have identified the suspects in detention as Kato Musafir,Lubega Ahamedi,Matovu Bamulaziki,Mugoya Sawali, Rogers Atuhaire and Yunusu Khalid.

The fight between the two moslem groups came as the result of disagreements between Tycoon Hassan Basajabalaba and some sections of the moslems. The tycoon allegedly wants to shift the moscue and Basajabalaba primary school to use the land for other personal developmental projects.

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