How priest’s hand got injured by dialysis machine at St Francis Hospital Nsambya

“I told the doctor it was too painful, but he told me to be strong and that the pain was a sign that I was getting healed,” Kirunda says. “The doctor started fumbling with the machine. He tried to switch it off, but it failed,” he recalls. Fearing for his life, Kirunda says he pulled himself away from the machine. By then, his hand had already begun swelling, and wounds were emerging. “I knew my hand would be cut off because of what had happened,” he says.

In the picture, the combo is the main entrance to St Francis Hospital Nsambya, where Fr Isaac Kirunda claims his hand was burnt by the dialysis machine while receiving treatment, and on the left is Fr Kirunda’s injured hand, which he says got damaged during dialysis. (Credit: Ibrahim Ruhweza)