URN.Trust Niwakora 5 was burnt in April while cooking food in the absence of her parents.
Rugarama Hospital in Kabale District is stuck with two children who were abandoned by their parents.
Trust Niwakora 5 was burnt in April while cooking food in the absence of her parents.
Loy Bariyanga, an auntie to the victim says that after the incident, the victim’s parents used local herbs to treat the burns until May 1 when they rushed her to Rugarama hospital after her condition deteriorated.
But, last month, the mother sneaked the baby out of the hospital and took her to the pastor’s home in Mushanje parish where they opted to pray for her. Bariyanga says that the victim who had started rotting was discovered and rushed back to Rugarama hospital.
She says both the victim’s parents fled the village and switched their phones off. Bariyanga says that the hospital now spends 20,000 to 35,000 Shillings per day to take care of the victim.
Ivan Bayega, a medical officer attached to the Surgical ward says that when the victim was brought back to the hospital, she was experiencing severe pain since the parents had again resorted to only praying and applying local herbs on the fresh wounds.
Another child Mercy Owayesu aged,5 was found by residents abandoned in a forest in Kyanamira sub-county, Kabale district. She was taken to Rugarama hospital by Monica Muhumuza Nzeirwe, the Kabale District Senior Probation Officer in November 2019.
At the hospital, the medical workers diagnosed and found she was suffering from Cerebral palsy, a congenital disorder of movement, muscle tone, or posture due to abnormal brain development, often before birth.
Komujuni Nayebare Kisoso, the acting in charge of the pediatric ward says that since then, the hospital has failed to trace the parents. Nayebare says that the victim only depends on mercy from good Samaritans who give her food and clothes.
Monica Muhumuza Nzeirwe, Kabale District Senior Probation Officer says that cases of parents abandoning their children are common in the district.
