News reaching our desk is that Uganda Christian University (UCU) was not able to provide an ambulance to transport her deceased student Nakimuli Victoria to the hospital. Nakimuli was found lying unconscious in her hostel room on Friday evening by her friends. She died the same evening at Nakasero Hospital.
A tweet from an angry student reveals that the university was not able to provide an ambulance for the deceased.
“You failed to provide an ambulance, and now you’ve the nerve to tweet about it,” reads the angry tweet in response to a condolence tweet that the official university account had posted.
A couple of anonymous interviews Campus Bee has made confirm the allegations.
The most serious allegation in the interviews conducted comes from one of the comments made to justify why the university was not able to give the ambulance.
Campus Bee was informed that the driver of Allan Galpin (the name of the university sick bay) was not available and so no one would drive the car.
To make matters worse, the students were informed by the clinic that Nakimuli was no longer a student of UCU since she had completed her examinations.
Another angry student tweets “Providing ambulance for the sick is better than providing them with university bus to the burial. Enough is enough,” it reads under the hashtag #ApologiseDeleteTheTweet. A hash tag that has been created so that the university can be moved to apologise for its action.
Campus Bee has also learnt that the students were offered a university bus for the funeral that did not have fuel.
“And a bus without fuel at that,” reads another tweet.
The students collected money within themselves to fuel the bus to the funeral grounds.
Nakimuli was still at the university, in her hostel room completing her dissertation when she got the condition that led to her death. After failing to secure the university ambulance, another one from Mukono town was used which rushed the deceased to the hospital.
A dissertation is a compulsory course unit at the university for fourth year law students and the Bee has learnt that the deadline to submit the research work was 2nd May. The law students are also scheduled to graduate on the 6th July this year.
This leave the question, when do UCU guys cease to be students of the Mukono based Institute?
When this campus news website contacted the university PRO, Michael Mubangizi to comment on these allegations, he promised to get back to us “after consulting with the responsible parties.”
Nakimuli was laid to rest yesterday in Buloba.
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