It is shocking but true. We have reliably learnt that doctors at Mulago hospital have body scanners but lacks capacity to operate them. But Mulago has been bragging all the years that it has the best facilities and best doctors. Our research indicates that the doctors at Nsambya and Lubaga hospital can assemble and operate body scanners yet Uganda’s national hospital lacks such capacity.

Dr. B. Byarugaba of Mulago hospital says that Mulago is begging for engineerz from Singapore to come and teach them how to operate body machines. The body scanners at Mulago are in form of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines.

Our informers went to Mulago hospital and confirmed that the Magnetic Resonance Imaging is not functioning because the engineers from Singapore have not come.

The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (body scanners) is used to scan soft tissues of the body such as the brain and the heart among others in order to detect anomalies before operation can be recommended or done. Dr. Byarugaba says that the Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines can also be used to detect cancer.