KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: The Mulago National Referral Hospital Executive Director Dr. Byarugaba Baterana has been arrested by the State House Health Monitoring Unit, after allegations of massive mismanagement including of finances.
“We invited him to explain to us a few things. We are holding him,” the unit’s head Dr. Warren Naamara was quoted by NBS.
Conspiracy to defraud and corruption are among the lines of investigations.
According to Namara, the hospital has been under their radar for the last couple of months following various concerns raised against management and the quality of services rendered to the population.
“We are querying mismanagement of resources, medicines and equipment at the hospital. As the head of the hospital, he is responsible and we invited him to help us with the ongoing investigations mid last month,” he said.
He says that they were forced to arrest the ED after he failed to honour their summons. Byarugaba took over the reins at Mulago hospital over 10 years following his appointment by President Museveni.
His appointment followed investigations into corruption allegations and mismanagement by the health monitoring unit that saw the transfer of the then executive director, Dr. Edward Ddumba.
Byarugaba came in with promises of improving services at Mulago hospital and fighting corruption that had perenially bedevilled the institution.