Dr. Batta Healed Museveni’s Liver
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday said Lt. Col. Dr. Ronald Batta, the first NRA guerrilla army doctor who passed away at the weekend, cured him of a liver problem.
BY Grace Matsiko and Diana Kadama
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday said Lt. Col. Dr. Ronald Batta, the first NRA guerrilla army doctor who passed away at the weekend, cured him of a liver problem.
“I myself was helped by him. It must have been 1983. the liver started swelling, one of the doctors thought I had been poisoned. But Batta said it was swollen but not evenly. I asked him what he meant and he said it could not be poison. you can see how brilliant he was.
He said it was an amoeba,†Museveni said. He said Batta prescribed flagyl, which cured his liver.
Museveni, who joined hundreds of mourners at Christ the King Church, Kampala, described Batta as brilliant, principled, patriotic and non-tribal, sentiments that were echoed by several speakers.
Defence minster Amama Mbabazi, senior government and UPDF officers attended the requiem mass celebrated by Rev. Fr. Lawrence Kenyi.
Batta, 54, passed away at Nsambya Hospital on Saturday after a long illness. He is to be buried tomorrow in his home district of Moyo. He joined the NRA in April 1982 in Luweero, where he worked as a medical superintendent at Nakaseke Hospital. In 1986, Batta was appointed state minster for defence and later moved to health in the same capacity.
“Batta is the one who started medical services in the NRA,†Museveni said. “He would have done much more for Uganda. His death is a big loss to the Movement and the country,†he added.
Museveni said Batta was married to several women whom he introduced, including a white woman with whom he fathered two children.
There was drama after one of the widows, who was not introduced by the President, continuously stood for identification but the President shot back saying, “I think the others are to be handled by clan leaders in Moyo. for me I know those who were connected to the struggle,†Museveni said.
The President directed Mbabazi and his secretary to ensure that Batta’s children continued with their education.
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PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday said Lt. Col. Dr. Ronald Batta, the first NRA guerrilla army doctor who passed away at the weekend, cured him of a liver problem.
“I myself was helped by him. It must have been 1983. the liver started swelling, one of the doctors thought I had been poisoned. But Batta said it was swollen but not evenly. I asked him what he meant and he said it could not be poison. you can see how brilliant he was.
He said it was an amoeba,†Museveni said. He said Batta prescribed flagyl, which cured his liver.
Museveni, who joined hundreds of mourners at Christ the King Church, Kampala, described Batta as brilliant, principled, patriotic and non-tribal, sentiments that were echoed by several speakers.
Defence minster Amama Mbabazi, senior government and UPDF officers attended the requiem mass celebrated by Rev. Fr. Lawrence Kenyi.
Batta, 54, passed away at Nsambya Hospital on Saturday after a long illness. He is to be buried tomorrow in his home district of Moyo. He joined the NRA in April 1982 in Luweero, where he worked as a medical superintendent at Nakaseke Hospital. In 1986, Batta was appointed state minster for defence and later moved to health in the same capacity.
“Batta is the one who started medical services in the NRA,†Museveni said. “He would have done much more for Uganda. His death is a big loss to the Movement and the country,†he added.
Museveni said Batta was married to several women whom he introduced, including a white woman with whom he fathered two children.
There was drama after one of the widows, who was not introduced by the President, continuously stood for identification but the President shot back saying, “I think the others are to be handled by clan leaders in Moyo. for me I know those who were connected to the struggle,†Museveni said.
The President directed Mbabazi and his secretary to ensure that Batta’s children continued with their education.
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