Pregnant woman survives bullet
IN what could be sheer luck, a pregnant teenager, whose intestines oozed out after she was hit by a bullet during Thursday’s walk-to work protests, is still alive
By Herbert Ssempogo
IN what could be sheer luck, a pregnant teenager, whose intestines oozed out after she was hit by a bullet during Thursday’s walk-to work protests, is still alive.
Despite a rumor that 18-year-old Brenda Nalweyo died, she was still alive albeit in a lot of pain when Saturday Vision went to Mulago Hospital yesterday.
Wincing and whimpering, Nalweyo lay on a bed in Ward 3. She was on drip, which was connected onto her left hand.
Tears rolled down her eyes as a nurse re-adjusted a needle that was inserted into her vein. She had a wound on the left wrist and the stomach, which a bullet perforated.
The intestines, a nurse told Saturday Vision, were gently pushed back into the stomach, as they neither had an infection nor injured. Miracously, the foetus was okay.
Seven-month pregnant Nalweyo was going to visit relatives in Bweya off the Kampala-Entebbe Road when she suddenly felt unwell.
“I called my husband and told him I felt pain in the stomach. He asked me to find him at Najjanankumbi. He said he could not come to Kajjansi, as he was going to Masaka,†she narrated. Her husband is Nasser Walukagga.
Nalweyo then hired a boda boda (motorcycle taxi) to take her to Najjanankumbi, suburb on Kampala-Entebbe Road.
“The rider hinted that there was chaos ahead but did not give me details,†she stated. On getting to Kajjansi, the chaos had already broken out. Security battled residents.
“I got off the motorcycle and looked for a safe place to hide. I heard a bullet and continued running. However, because I was at the back, when the last bullet was fired, it hit my stomach and I fell,†she recollected.
Intestines popping out, she was dashed to Mulago Hospital atop a police patrol truck.
As she cried yesterday, a nurse advised her to stay calm so that the unborn baby is not affected. Nalweyo disclosed that she dropped out of school in senior four owing to financial constraints. She has been married to Walukagga for over two years.
Also admitted in Mulago were Joseph Ssewagudde and Geoffrey Kiwanuka.
Ssewagudde said the police hit him with a baton in Kampala, while Kiwanuka alleged a bullet hit him in Kasangati, Wakiso district.
IN what could be sheer luck, a pregnant teenager, whose intestines oozed out after she was hit by a bullet during Thursday’s walk-to work protests, is still alive.
Despite a rumor that 18-year-old Brenda Nalweyo died, she was still alive albeit in a lot of pain when Saturday Vision went to Mulago Hospital yesterday.
Wincing and whimpering, Nalweyo lay on a bed in Ward 3. She was on drip, which was connected onto her left hand.
Tears rolled down her eyes as a nurse re-adjusted a needle that was inserted into her vein. She had a wound on the left wrist and the stomach, which a bullet perforated.
The intestines, a nurse told Saturday Vision, were gently pushed back into the stomach, as they neither had an infection nor injured. Miracously, the foetus was okay.
Seven-month pregnant Nalweyo was going to visit relatives in Bweya off the Kampala-Entebbe Road when she suddenly felt unwell.
“I called my husband and told him I felt pain in the stomach. He asked me to find him at Najjanankumbi. He said he could not come to Kajjansi, as he was going to Masaka,†she narrated. Her husband is Nasser Walukagga.
Nalweyo then hired a boda boda (motorcycle taxi) to take her to Najjanankumbi, suburb on Kampala-Entebbe Road.
“The rider hinted that there was chaos ahead but did not give me details,†she stated. On getting to Kajjansi, the chaos had already broken out. Security battled residents.
“I got off the motorcycle and looked for a safe place to hide. I heard a bullet and continued running. However, because I was at the back, when the last bullet was fired, it hit my stomach and I fell,†she recollected.
Intestines popping out, she was dashed to Mulago Hospital atop a police patrol truck.
As she cried yesterday, a nurse advised her to stay calm so that the unborn baby is not affected. Nalweyo disclosed that she dropped out of school in senior four owing to financial constraints. She has been married to Walukagga for over two years.
Also admitted in Mulago were Joseph Ssewagudde and Geoffrey Kiwanuka.
Ssewagudde said the police hit him with a baton in Kampala, while Kiwanuka alleged a bullet hit him in Kasangati, Wakiso district.