Budding TV journalist dies hours after giving birth
Monday May 17 2021
This screen-grab from Kampala based NBS television shows deceased Sheila Nakabuye during a live broadcast on an unspecified date during Uganda s 2020-21 electoral season. PHOTO/FILE
Summary
Nakabuye s twitter handle indicates that she last posted yesterday (May 16) at 10.36am reacting to an NBS story about an Israeli airstrike which destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of Al-Jazeera, Associated Press, and other offices and residential apartments.
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Sheila Nakabuye, 32, was pronounced dead by doctors at Mbarara Regional Referral hospital at around 8am.
According to friends and family members, the NBS TV s south western Uganda bureau chief gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday through a C-section at Cedus Clinic in Rwebikoona Mbarara where she had been admitted.