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Mulago National Referral Hospital fined 50 million shillings .

01 February, 2024
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The High Court in Kampala has ordered Mulago National Referral Hospital to pay Shs50 million to Fatuma Nakayima for the loss of her newborn baby within the hospital premises.


Justice Phillip Odoki presided over the case and held Mulago Hospital liable for the December 2015 disappearance of Nakayima’s newborn baby boy.

On December 26, 2015, Nakayima was admitted to ward 5C and delivered via C-section. A health worker informed her that she had delivered a stillborn baby boy. However, Nakayima was never given the body of the deceased baby or any confirmation of its death.

Following this ordeal, Nakayima petitioned the High Court Civil Division to determine the whereabouts of her baby.

After seven years of hardship, Justice Odoki ruled that Mulago Hospital violated Nakayima’s right to information regarding her child and caused her severe mental distress, requiring compensation.

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