Added 16th December 2016
Mulago National Referral Hospital has been dragged to civil division of the High court in Kampala over missing baby.
Center for Health, Human Rights and
Development (CEHURD) alongside Fatumah Nakayima, the mother of the
missing baby dragged the executive director, Mulago hospital and the
Attorney General (AG) to court on Thursday through Dalumba Advocates
Nakayima now wants an order that Mulago
hospital immediately avails her baby and an award of general damages to
her for violation of human rights and those of her child.
Nakayima also wants a declaration that
failure by the hospital to give her the baby after birth is a violation
of her right to health contrary to section 33(3) of the Constitution.
"On December 26, 2015 I went to Mulago
hospital to deliver my baby; unfortunately I developed some
complications and referred for a C-section. On waking up I was informed
that my baby had lived for a few hours and died," she narrated.
However, Nakayima says she was
discharged without her baby's body, upon which her husband and herself
reported to Mulago police station which have not been of any help to
date.
According to the plaint, Nakayima states
that as a result, she reported the matter to Uganda Association of
Women Lawyers (FIDA-Uganda), upon which she was advised to contact
CEHURD to help her find the child from Mulago hospital.
On April 28, 2016 Nakayima went to
CEHURD requesting for assistance because her new born child had gone
missing from Mulago and had not been given assistance by the hospital.
In her affidavit, CEHURD programme
manager Primah Kwagala says that she inquired about the whereabouts of
the new born baby from Mulago hospital but was not accorded any
assistance.
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