Bullet stuck in woman’s body shot by police in taxi

It has been a terrible Easter for an innocent woman and her family who are traumatized with anxiety as a bullet police accidentally fired into her body a week ago has eluded medical workers who have been probing her body using X-ray equipment.

Whereas the bullet clearly entered 37 year old Mary Achan, and with no sign that it exited her body, medics are baffled as they cannot find it inside her. 

The victim of the police stray bullet is a resident of Budhumbuli village in Northern division of Jinja city and was shot and injured by a stray bullet while seated in a commuter Coaster taxi on her way home from Jinja town last Tuesday. 

Achan was shot by police officers who were attempting to arrest suspected rowdy youth in Bugembe trading center. 

The suspects were resisting arrest, prompting police to employ teargas and live bullets in a bid to subdue them, but they instead ended up shooting at Achan during the scuffle. 

Achan sustained injuries in the left thigh area and was admitted at Jinja regional referral hospital Ward 9, where her wound was cleaned and X-ray investigations conducted. However, they failed to trace the location of the bullet within her body.

She was then discharged on Thursday last week but after experiencing aching pain in her femur, Achan resolved to seek further help from Unity Medical Center where she is receiving antibiotics aimed at relieving her of the persistent pain.

“Although health workers at the Jinja regional referral hospital discharged me and directed me to report for medical checkups every after two weeks, I realized that, not only was I feeling a lot of pain but the wound was also rotting away,” Achan says.

“So I had no option but seek help from this orthopedic clinic for further management,” she says.

Angella Yavurwa, the victim’s mother says that despite their efforts to have her daughter fully recover, they are worried over the doctor’s failure to trace the bullet or its’ fragments within her body. 

Yavurwa further reveals that, their family is unable to pay the Shs. 3.5m bill which is required by the orthopedist before conducting surgery on Achen’s. 

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