Electricity shock: 25 Bundibugyo pupils admitted

Sep 26, 2011

Twenty five pupils of SDA Integrated ded day and boarding Primary school in Bundimasoli village, Kasitu sub-county in the western district of Bundibugyo are admitted at Bundibugyo hospital in critical condition after an electricity shock.

By Hope Mafaranga

Twenty five pupils of SDA Integrated day and boarding Primary school in Bundimasoli village, Kasitu sub-county in the western district of Bundibugyo are admitted at Bundibugyo hospital in critical condition after an electricity shock.

Police picked the pupils from the school and rushed them to the hospital for treatment.

The school matron Busaghirye Nyesiyano said the pupils were shocked by electricity at around 10pm on Sunday night after a spark off in the chapel where they were praying from.

“We saw fire coming out from where the electricity wires were joined from and we all started struggling to out of the building before it caught fire. We called in the Police to help us,” she said.

The Bundibugyo district Police commander Denis Namuwoza told the New Vision on Monday that when he got the news, he called the Bundibugyo hospital administrator Ronald Mutegeki for an ambulance to rush at the scene but the hospital did not have fuel.

The school is located 25 kms from Bundibugyo town.

Namuwoza said that the Police improvised and transported the affected pupils on a Police patrol, but upon arrival to the hospital, it was closed and no medical personnel were on duty.

“I called the hospital administrator to give us an ambulance to rescue the pupils he said they had no fuel. I drove the police patrol to save pupils lives and I begged him to make sure that medical personnel are available to give the children immediate health attention but to my shock, we arrived at the hospital, it was closed and no one was there to receive the children,” Namuwoza said.

“When I tried the administrator’s number again his phone was off. I felt guilty because I had removed these kids from a small and local clinic to the main Government but there was no doctor or nurse to attend to them,” he added.

Namuwoza said that the situation was saved by the district LC5 chairperson, Jolly Tibemanya who called the medical workers.

He said, he will instruct the chief administrative officer to summon the health workers for an explanation to why they closed the hospital and explain why there was no body on duty on that night.

“We need an explanation why the hospital was closed and no one on duty and I will treat this matter as negligence of duty, imagine if we did not act fast we were going to loss 25 children at once,” Tibemanya added.

However the Bundibugyo hospital superintendent Dr Steven Kaddu Ssesaga said the situation were normalizing and their health stabilizing, but was quick to add that they are still monitoring their progress.




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