Students cause chaos in Mulago hospital as they went to visit their colleague

By Andrew kiwanuka

Havoc broke out in the country’s largest referral hospital Mulago when Nkumba university students who had gone to visit their fellow student Ssenyonjo Joseph commonly known as Ambassador a student of information technology who was admitted three weeks ago were barred from entering the ward.
The students who were led by their guild president arrived in the hospital at 2:30pm decided to walk directly to ward 4B where their fellow student is still tussling with serious malaria, never found it easy as they expected since security personnel could not allow them to proceed saying that it was not time for visiting patients and that doctors were busy diagnosing patients in the ward.

The angry students could not listen to the security operatives and threw lots of derogatory words to them. This propelled the Resident District Commissioner of Kawempe Edward Ssekabanja to intervene in the matter, though he could not do much to enable the students get what they wanted.

As the issue grew bigger and bigger, attention in the whole new Mulago hospital, was aroused and the hospital police which at first had left the matter to the security guards came in and students were asked to move out of the hospital or else they would be arrested and charged with causing insecurity in the hospital, making unnecessary noise to the patients and also with idle and disorderly. The security asked the students to come back during the stipulated visiting hours which are 5:30pm on wards or utilize another day but their requests seem to have fallen on deaf ears as the exchange of words involving education levels, age, financial status, among others continued to engulf the hospital.

Nkumba times observed that the aggrieved students who traveled in the guild coaster decided to ask the attendant to carry the patient down stairs so the rest can see him from there and also give him what they had carried although most seemed to be empty handed and had used this chance to relax .

The guild president, who had earlier been warned to order his subjects to calm down or else would be arrested, pleaded to the angry students to stop abusing the security officers even if they are mere mchaka mchaka graduates. He then asked them to gather at their truck and came back to Nkumba minus seeing the patient.