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Speaker Jacob Oulanyah Rushed to US Hospital in Critical Condition

Speaker Jacob Oulanyah

The health of speaker of Parliament Jacob Lokori Oulanyah has deteriorated, prompting government to fly him to the US for treatment.

As we reported last week, Oulanyah was recently admitted at Nakasero Hospital in Kampala.

Other sources now say he had also been treated at the Mulago National Referral Hospital.

But the Omoro County MP’s condition is said to have deteriorated.

Oulanyah, who has not been seen in public for over a month now, would then be rushed to the US on Thursday, February 03, 2022.

The speaker was reported flown to Seattle using a chartered Uganda Airlines A330 air craft registration code 5X-NIL.

This is not the first time Oulanyah’s health condition is becoming a subject of public attention.

Last year, he reportedly flew to the UK for treatment. (Read story here).

Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. Most of his previous work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block.