By Website Writer; Mulago national referral hospital Executive Director, Dr. Byarugaba Baterana has today, Wednesday, March 9, 2022, handed over office to his deputy, Dr. Rosemary Byanyima.
This follows his interdiction last week when he was arrested by State House Health Monitoring Unit (HMU) for alleged mismanagement of the hospital.
These included: embezzlement, fraudulent accounting, abuse of office, and causing financial loss to the government.
Dr. Baterana, who is also the accounting officer of the hospital, was arrested together with the hospital’s principal administrator, engineer, head of accounts, senior accountant, and accounts assistant.
It should be remembered in April 2021, HMU launched an investigation into Mulago hospital’s management of essential medicines and health supplies, human resources for health and finance, covering four financial years.
The total unaccounted-for or misappropriated funds during the period under investigation amounted to Shs.28.8 billion.
Also, in June 2019 while appearing before the Public Accounts Committee, Baterana was put on the spot to account for Shs 245 million, which was not traceable on the hospital’s bank accounts.
Present the handover of office were the Hospital board members led by Dr Edward Kanyesigye, senior Hospital administration staff and Dr Baterana’s lawyers.
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