Speaking to URN on Sunday, Hebert Luswata, the UMA president said Olila who was both a lecturer at Soroti University and a medical practitioner in private practice had left New Moroti Clinic at around 7 pm with surgeries scheduled for the next day, only to be found dead.
The Uganda
Medical Association (UMA) has called for quick investigations into the murder
of Dr Wilfred Olila, an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeon who was murdered on his
way from work on Friday.
Speaking to
URN on Sunday, Hebert Luswata, the UMA President said Olila who was both a
lecturer at Soroti University and a medical practitioner in private practice had
left New Moroti Clinic at around 7 pm with surgeries scheduled for the next day,
only to be found dead.
Luswata who
condemns the violent attack on his colleague said the deceased body was found
tied up with ropes and abandoned with the only identifier on him being the blue
branded T-shirt of the medical association.
//Cue in:” Doctor
Olila yava …
Cue out: … Ku Doctor Olila”. //
Dr Olila
graduated from Makerere University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Medicine and
Surgery before proceeding to pursue a Masters of Medicine in
otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck surgery in 2008.
Luswata says brutality against health workers is a grave injustice and that police
need to quickly bring perpetrators of such crimes to book.