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The second Covid-19 wave continues to ravage the country, leading to an oxygen shortage crisis in nearly all hospitals and the daily average death of at least 35 people in the last 3-4 weeks although some deaths remain uncaptured as people continue to treat themselves from home due to shortage of hospital beds and hiked medical bills ranging from Shs 2-5 million per day for Covid-19 patients.
Mugongo and her late brother Fred Katamba Mukiibi pioneered commercial funeral services in the country in 1994 with their UFS, drawing scorn from the general population over what many considered a cultural taboo at the time, offering services ranging from the feeding of mourners, offering criers for hire, hearse and transport services, treating bodies to grave construction, post-death counseling, grave digging and construction, coffin sales among others.