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This is crazy:Step-mum forces stick into girl's private parts

KAMULI - A six-year-old girl in Kamuli district was admitted in Kamuli Mission Hospital after her step-mother forced a stick into her vagina and it got stuck in the lower abdomen. Shadia Kuboota met her ordeal recently, when her step-mother, Madina Nanangwe, 22, flogged her, spread her legs apart then forced a stick into her private parts. Kuboota, is undergoing treatment in the Intensive Care Unit, where sympathisers are flocking in to check on her. Milton Waiswa, the spokesperson in the CID office said Nanangwe, committed the offense in Bulowoza village in Iganga district. Nanange first took the child to her parent’s home in Nawangaiza, Kamuli district. She claimed the child had been defiled by an unknown person. Her unsuspecting parents advised her to report the matter to the Police, where she was cleared for medical examination. http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/640698-step-mum-forces-stick-into-girl-s-private-parts.html  

Press Release:Mulago Hospital installs multibillion Heart operation unit as President calls for direct procurement of specialized equipment

President Yoweri Museveni has said government will support Mulago hospital to directly procure urgently needed equipment to operationalise the newly installed multibillion Heart Operation theatre unit worth over Shs 10bn (US$ 4.5Million). The President was today meeting officials from Mulago hospital led by the Minister of State For Primary Health Hon. Sarah Opendi, the Director general of Health Services Dr. J.R Achieng, the Executive Director of Mulago Hospital Dr. Byarugaba Baterana, the Executive Director Mulago Heart Institute Dr. John Omagino, the Head of Cardiac Surgery Dr. Peter Lwabi and a team from the Agha Khan Foundation led by Dr. Raj Jutley. The unit that is fully equipped with a cardiac catherization unit has been installed with the personal support of President Museveni. If fully operational, it has the capacity to facilitate 1000 operation procedures per year which if referred abroad would cost the country in the excess of US$20million be year. ‘They should