A final year medical student at Busitema University, Ms Rosette Kyarikunda has passed on after reportedly taking a COVID-19 vaccine which triggered serious effects on her body, Campus Bee has learned.
The deceased received her first COVID-19 jab (Astra-zeneca type) on August 17, thereafter developing severe headache and general body illness according to a statement released August 28 from the Federation of Uganda Medical Students’ Associations (FUMSA).
“She received her first covid-AstraZeneca jab and developed miled headache and mailaise, and on Wednesday (Aug 25), her condition worsended and was admitted and managed at Mbale Regional Referal Hospital until Sunday when she was refered to Kirudu Hospital because her situation was worsening” the statement reads.
“She was then admitted and put in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after developing a multi-organ failure and as of today (August 28), has been in coma for more than 36 hours and was put on dialysis yesterday, that wasn’t completed because her scrum albumin levels were very low, she received henceforth a dose of albumin” the statement adds
The statement further revealed that the hositpal bills were mounted to UGX 1 Million per day and the parents to the deceased were financially constrained.
The late Kyarikunda breathed passed on today (Aug 31) shortly after schools reopened for medical students. She was pursuing Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)
Before her demise, Kyarikunda (RIP) left a whatsapp status update attributing her illness to the covid-19 vaccine, a feeling which she said, she had never experienced her whole life.
May her soul rest in eternal peace
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