Pathologist Kalyemenya dead

One of Mulago Hospital's longest-serving pathologists, Dr. Martin Kalyemenya, is dead.

The consultant pathologist was renowned for being a key signatory for any evidence accompanying Police files requiring medical reports.

For any case file to be sanctioned for hearing in court, especially within Kawempe division, it was always recommended that the complainant had to first be examined by Kalyemenya, who would thereafter, compile a medical report.

Kalyemenya is remembered for authoring medical reports on cases ranging from defilement, rape, murder, and assault, among others.

His reports resulted into the conviction of several suspects, including Sharma Kooky, who was sentenced to death for killing his wife, Renu Joshi, in Old Kampala in December 1997. Kooky was, however, later in 2012 pardoned by President Yoweri Museveni.

His friends said Kalyemenya died after collapsing in a bathroom at his home in Nabweru, Nansana Municipality, Wakiso district.

According to a friend, the doctor was rushed to Mulago Hospital and admitted into the Intensive Care Unit, where he was found to have suffered cerebral haemorrhage (bleeding in the brain).

Kalyemenya later underwent surgery on Tuesday, but his condition deteriorated and he passed on yesterday.

A staunch Catholic and Democratic Party supporter, many described Kalyemenya as an amiable and sociable person.

Until his death, he has been a pathology lecturer at Makerere University School of Medicine and a medical consultant at Mulago Hospital.

The Mulago Hospital administrator, David Niwamanya, described Kalyemenya as a hardworking colleague.

Kalyemenya, who died at 64 years, is survived by two wives (Regina and Josephine) and seven children. He was laid to rest at his ancestral home in Nakaseke district.