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Uganda: Otaala Denies Slapping Nurse
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New Vision (Kampala)
12 May 2008
Posted to the web 13 May 2008
Josephine Maseruka
Kampala
HEALTH state minister Emmanuel Otaala has denied reports that he slapped Margaret Tageyerawo, a nursing officer at Mulago Hospital.
Otaala told journalists at the health ministry headquarters yesterday that the media reports were: "A calculated move to malign me and tarnish my image before the public, the appointing authority and the international community."
He said investigations were going on to find out the people who were working through The Daily Monitor scribe, Chris Obore, to publish harmful articles against him.
"There is no need to sue The Daily Monitor because it was only highlighting the issue, but when I get those who are witch-hunting me, I will sue them."
Otaala was reacting to The Sunday Monitor story titled 'Health minister beats up nurse.'
It reported that on July 28, 2007, Otaala found the nurse in Ward 3BES (emergency surgical ward), and asked her for Edward Okumu's file.
Okumu, 66, had complained to the minister that he was denied admission in the hospital.
The reports added that when the nurse failed to give Otaala answers about Okumu, he got furious and slapped her.
However, Otaala said: "I asked the nurse why Okumu had not been admitted for two days yet he had been referred from Mbale Hospital. She was rude and uncourteous although I had introduced myself as the health minister."
Otaala said he asked the hospital's deputy executive director, Isaac Ezaati, to discipline Tageyerawo.
After two weeks, Ezaati said they had transferred Tageyerawo to another ward after disciplining her.
Efforts to speak to Tageyerawo yesterday were futile.
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Mariam Walusimbi, the hospital assistant commissioner for nursing, declined to discuss the matter.
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