The Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has expressed sadness at the arrest of the Mulago Hospital executive director, Dr Byaruhanga Baterana.
They said his arrest was based on unproven grounds.
“We are deeply saddened by the arrest of our very own, the director of Mulago National Referral Hospital by the health monitoring unit on unproven grounds of misappropriation of funds without a fair hearing,” UMA said in a statement on Tuesday.
The association president, Dr Samuel Oledo Odongo signed on the statement.
As the medical association, Odongo also noted, an attack of one of them is an attack on all of them. He also added that the association shall follow up on this case to the latter.
“It’s upon that background that UMA shall have a presser tomorrow at 3:00 pm at Jinja Road Police Station. This is where they are holding Dr BB (Baterana) on unclear charges,” the UMA statement said.
Despite what Baterana did, UMA said they must take appropriate measures for a fair hearing. State House’s Health Monitoring Unit arrested Baterana over alleged misappropriation of funds at Mulago among other issues.
The unit’s head, Dr Warren Namara, confirmed Baterana’s arrest. Furthermore, he said they took the doctor to the unit headquarters in Nakasero to record a statement.
