NRA’s Doctor Batta Is Dead
THE first National Resistance Army (NRA) doctor, Dr. Ronald Batta, is dead. <br>
By Grace Matsiko
THE first National Resistance Army (NRA) doctor, Dr. Ronald Batta, is dead.
Batta, the director of medical services for the NRA guerrillas, passed away in Mulago Hospital at 4:00pm on Sunday. His family said he died after a long battle against diabetes and hypertension.
The NRA became the Uganda People’s Defence Forces in 1995.
“We are going for a meeting to discuss the burial arrangements,†the Director General of External Security Organisation and Batta’s nephew, Maku Iga, said.
He described Batta’s death as a great loss to the family and the country at large.
Batta, 52, was captured by the NRA guerrillas during a raid at Nakaseke Hospital where he was a medical superintendent in 1981.
President Yoweri Museveni in his book, Sowing the Mustard Seed, recounts, “We (NRA) gave him (Batta) the option of going away but he decided to stay and, later on, he became our director of medical services.â€
Batta went to Lake Victoria Primary in Entebbe, Moyo and later joined St. Mary’s College Kisubi for the Higher School Certificate. He studied at Makerere University where he graduated as a surgeon.
During the NRA struggle, a colleague recalled, Batta helped in dislodging bullets from wounded guerrillas and amputating limbs of the casualties.
A requiem mass will be held at Christ the King Church today.
Batta’s body will be transported to his residence at Plot 1. Church Road in Entebbe. It will be flown to Moyo tomorrow and the burial takes place on Thursday near Moyo town.
He is survived by seven children and a wife.
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THE first National Resistance Army (NRA) doctor, Dr. Ronald Batta, is dead.
Batta, the director of medical services for the NRA guerrillas, passed away in Mulago Hospital at 4:00pm on Sunday. His family said he died after a long battle against diabetes and hypertension.
The NRA became the Uganda People’s Defence Forces in 1995.
“We are going for a meeting to discuss the burial arrangements,†the Director General of External Security Organisation and Batta’s nephew, Maku Iga, said.
He described Batta’s death as a great loss to the family and the country at large.
Batta, 52, was captured by the NRA guerrillas during a raid at Nakaseke Hospital where he was a medical superintendent in 1981.
President Yoweri Museveni in his book, Sowing the Mustard Seed, recounts, “We (NRA) gave him (Batta) the option of going away but he decided to stay and, later on, he became our director of medical services.â€
Batta went to Lake Victoria Primary in Entebbe, Moyo and later joined St. Mary’s College Kisubi for the Higher School Certificate. He studied at Makerere University where he graduated as a surgeon.
During the NRA struggle, a colleague recalled, Batta helped in dislodging bullets from wounded guerrillas and amputating limbs of the casualties.
A requiem mass will be held at Christ the King Church today.
Batta’s body will be transported to his residence at Plot 1. Church Road in Entebbe. It will be flown to Moyo tomorrow and the burial takes place on Thursday near Moyo town.
He is survived by seven children and a wife.
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