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Mr Update Muhammad Ssegirinya Fighting For His Life At Amsterdam Hospital

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Kawempe North MP, Muhammad Ssegirinya is fighting for his life at UMC Hospital in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Last Month, the Kawempe North legislator was rushed to German for specialized medical treatment and later to the Netherlands where he is critically ill.

National Unity Platform Party Secretary David Lewis Rubongoya said that Ssegirinya is till feeling very weak as they talked on the phone.

“Spoke with our brother Hon. Ssegirinya Muhammad, who is undergoing medical treatment at UMC Hospital in Amsterdam,” said Rubongoya before adding,

“He spoke with difficulty and told me he is still feeling very weak. Thankfully he is now in the hands of a very good medical team which we hope will ensure he gets better and back on his feet.

“Grateful to all comrades who have been checking on him and offering emotional and psychological support. Praying for a quick and full recovery.”

It is also believed that the opposition lawmaker has accused the Parliament of deliberately abandoning him, by refusing to pay his medical bills abroad, even after promising that they will cater for his medical bills on foreign land.

Ssegirinya’s health condition deteriorated after spending more than a year in prison where he was sentenced with Makindye East MP, Allan Ssewanyana.

They are accused of sponsoring the Masaka Bijambiya gang that terrorized and killed people in the greater Masaka region.

After numerous tests which discovered that the legislator was suffering from lung complications, which could not be adequately handled internally, he was advised to seek medical care abroad.

On August 12, Ssegirinya told a local newspaper, Daily Monitor  that Parliament has never footed a single medical bill, since he travelled

“They have refused to pay the medical bills. They only bought me an air ticket which took me to Nairobi but for medical bills, including the one of Nairobi and Germany, I used my salary to pay,” he said.

From Germany, he said, he was transferred to UMC Hospital Amsterdam since his condition was worrying.

“I don’t have any money with me. At the hospital, they need money yet Parliament promised to foot my bills,” Ssegirinya noted

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