The family of Rashid Ssemugeny is grieving for their son who passed on Tuesday night after battling a terrible infection believed to be cancer for a long time.
TrumpetNews learnt of Ssemugenyi’s health complications last year in October and how the family had approached his employer (Uganda Police ) for intervention to save his life but in vain.
But rather was left to die at his father’s home in Western Uganda after failing to raise shs 80 million to have a kidney transplant in India.
After publishing the story in October, the deceased’s brother Jamilu Kilabira received threatening phone calls grilling him as to why he took the issues to the media yet the institution was working on his medical treatment.
However, police never intervened to save Ssemugenyi who breathed his last Tuesday night.
Below we reproduce the story published last year!
After completing a bachelor of commerce in 2015 at Makerere Univesity, Rashid Ssemugenyi’s dream was to join Police Force and serve his nation.
Indeed he enrolled for training at police training school in Kabalye, “donning a uniform was his passion,” Rashid’s brother Jamil Kilabira told the this website.
Rashid would later pass out as a cadet officer and posted at Mitooma police station as the Officer in Charge (OC) After three months of service, Rashid’s dream was shattered when he suffered a strange illness that weakened him time after time.
“He was compelled to quit his job as he had become completely frail,” Jamil added.
Shockingly medics failed to diagnose the disease that kept eating him to the marrow.
“Our family at one point thought it was witchcraft.”
Hope was regained after a diagnosis conducted at Case Clinic in Kampala which indicated that Rashid has a kidney complication which the family highly believes is as a result of a training he went through at Kabalye.
A cadet training is considered to be one of the sophisticated and highly complicated.
He has since been on dialysis for nine months, of course with exorbitant medical costs that have drained the family.
Jamil says that their efforts to have police intervene have since been futile.
The family needs to raise shs 80 million to go for a kidney transplant in India in a months time.
But before going to India, Rashid is supposed to go to Nairobi together with the potential kidney donor*(the mother) for medical examination in 2 weeks which requires 6 millions.
Jamil adds that 9 months down the road, Rashid’s employers have never bothered knowing the condition he is in but only keeps making promises.
“My father sold all the cows and everything to educate us with hope we would surely do well. My brothers condition needs urgent attention,” he said.
