High Court in Kampala has ordered Mulago Hospital to pay Shs50 million and account for the lost baby boy.
In 2016, Fatumah Nakayima dragged the Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital and the Attorney General over the disappearance of her baby after she was delivered by a caesarian section at Mulago National Referral Hospital. The baby or its body have never been found.
She asked the court to declare that the failure of Mulago Hospital to avail her baby after birth and provide her with information concerning the whereabouts of her baby, dead or alive, was a violation of her right to health and the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, and an order that Mulago Hospital immediately avail the child.
In his ruling, Justice Phillip Odoki ordered that the failure of the hospital to give Nakayima her baby after birth and provide her with information concerning the whereabouts of her baby, dead or alive, is a violation of her right to health.
He ordered that Nakayima be paid Shs50 million as compensation, and this compensation will attract interest of 15% per annum from the date of the ruling until paid in full.
