Uganda’s nursing profession needs a Florence Nightingale

The latest, in a long list of scandals rocking Uganda’s health ministry, is one where a negligent nurse at Gulu Referral Hospital ‘forgot’
to tie a newborn baby’s umbilical cord properly leading to his death in an incubator hours after his birth through caesarian section!
The shocking image of the dead baby lying in blood-soaked beddings appeared on New Vision’s front page on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, under the heading ‘Newborn baby bleeds to death in hospital.’ It is stories,

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