LATEST UPDATE: Deputy Speaker Anita Among Delivers Message of Hope after Visiting Jacob Oulanyah in US Hospital

Deputy Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among has given an update on the health condition of Speaker Jacob Oulanyah, saying he is responding to treatment. 

Oulanyah was rushed to the US in February 2022. (Read Story Here).
Deputy speaker Anita Annet Among would later tell MPs that Oulanyah was improving. (Read Story Here).
But last Friday, she is said to have been told that the speaker’s condition had deteriorated.
It has also emerged that when she received the news of the speaker’s deteriorating health condition last week, deputy speaker Anita Among spent the whole night crying. (Read Story Here).
On March 15, Anita Among flew to the US to check on her boss Oulanyah. (Read Story Here).
Also visiting the speaker in the US are Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo, Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, DP leader Norbert Mao and Oulanyah’s close family members. (Read Story Here).

Among, Mao and Owiny-Dollo flew to the US to check on Oulanyah amidst rumors that the speaker has died. (Read Story Here).

The rumors of Oulanyah’s death spread after Wikipedia published an update claiming he had breathed his last. (Read Story Here).

Several Ugandans have been reacting to the Oulanyah’s death rumors. (Read NUP leader Bobi Wine’s reaction here).

Opposition FDC has also sent a message to the speaker. (Read Story Here).

UPDATE ON JACOB OULANYAH HEALTH CONDITION

According to Among, Oulanyah is “responding to treatment under the close attention of his doctors.”

“Together with close friends; His Lordship Alphonse Owiny Dollo, Hon.Nobert Mao and Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng; I have visited Rt Hon Speaker Jacob Oulanyah at his Hospital Bed in Seattle. He is receiving and responding to treatment under the close attention of his Doctors,” said the deputy speaker.

She called on Ugandans to keep praying for the speaker and to respect his privacy.

“Let us keep him in prayers for a speedy and complete recovery. I urge the public to respect his privacy and that of the family,” she appealed to Ugandans.

Among’s statement came hours after DP leader Norbert Mao said Oulanyah was very sick. (Read Story Here).

BREAKING: Speaker Jacob Oulanyah Dead

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