Katumba shooting exposes gaps in emergency response services
Sunday June 13 2021
Health workers help a pregnant mother to disembark from motorcycle ambulance at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital where she was referred from Ntoroko District in Apirl. PHOTO | ALEX ASHABA
Summary
Analysts say given that a boda boda was the only means by which a high-profile person such as a minister and former Chief of Defence Forces could access a medical facility, says a lot about the country’s ambulance system.
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On the morning of June 1, unknown assailants riding on two motorcycles attacked the former Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen Edward Katumba Wamala, spraying his vehicle with bullets in what police said was a “targeted drive-by shooting”.
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