VIOLAH NAHURIRA
The poor Patient
Recently at a coffee bar,I overheard a doctor say that his monthly taxes to the national revenue authority via the Pay as you Earn (P.A.Y.E) mandatory tax deductions could buy hypertension ( high blood pressure) drugs for two, level two health centers in Uganda for about half a year. A level four health center in Uganda is meant to serve a population […]
Contraception by Financial slavery
This week, there was a unique scenario of, a 32-year-old woman who came to the hospital for an elective cesarean section delivery and asked her obstetrician to conduct a permanent family planning method commonly known as Bilateral Tubal Ligation (BTL) during the cesarean delivery. The uncommon social issues that surround the case are that this […]
We want it all….. all of it.
On April 7th, 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first black woman in the history of America to serve in the United States supreme court as associate Justice. For days, her speech has been ringing in my head. Of the many things she mentioned, she thanked her husband for being very supportive, and […]
Borrowing from the Tanzania Traditions.
Children are loved, but they are not invited is a famous statement that you will come across on many wedding or traditional ceremony invitations in Tanzania. I have for a long time reserved my comments about weddings and other marriage ceremonies and the expectations they come with. Over the holidays, i learn’t about how our […]
The Meatyness of Meat
Goat meat, cow meat, chicken, pork, shark meat, rabbit meat, fish, donkey meat, hippo meat, are the meats i remember to have eaten. I swallowed all except shark meat. Yes, i weighed between an experience and a gag reflex embarrassment. I chose safety. While visiting Ethiopia, my friends mentioned how starstruck they were by how […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…Day 200. My HIV test fever!
Image showing a positive and negative test. (Image got from the internet) Its one thing asking your patients about their HIV status and declaring them serostatus unknown because their last test was over 3 months ago, and its another having to throw the same question to yourself as a health worker. I can confidently declare […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…Day 197. My migrainer perspective
I’m writing this post not as a doctor, but as a patient. Because I’m an occasional Migrainer. Every time I have a migraine, ( 8 years now), I always wish I didn’t understand the physiology that could be happening in my head. I cry, I stress from understanding the possible complications and possible future progression […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 177
We’re half way with internship. Its 6 months today baby, and my skin glows even better than before😊😊…isn’t God good?😊 Before internship, colleagues told me the work load at my internship site would be overwhelming and I’d loose myself including the weight😂. On the bright side, I knew I was going to lose some weight. […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 173
#sadTales Once, I wheeled a dead body in a wheelchair . the caretaker had failed to wheel, I offered help, when I got to the destination and decided to help the old man get to his bed, I realised he was actually dead. He had been dead the whole time she had been wheeling 💔😧
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 171
I stayed at work for you, please stay at home for me! Remember my post 7 days ago when I said my country had no COVID 19 case? Well, it hit us. We had a case the next 2 days. And two days later, 8 more announced in one day, making matters worse, we have […]