Painful!! Evelyn Lagu’s Son Narrates The Horror His Mother Underwent In Ugandan Hospitals – Blames Uganda’s Health System

The family of fallen Ugandan musician Evelyn Lagu has expressed regret and disappointment with the Ugandan healthcare system as they finally laid her to rest at her ancestral home in Kalungu, Masaka.

Addressing hundreds of mourners who turned up for the send-off, Freddie Kasavu, the singer’s son said his mother could have easily beaten her kidney infection if the numerous hospitals they went to had not failed to diagnose the disease.In an impassioned 30-minute speech, Kasavu told mourners that by the time the kidney disease was identified by medics at Nakasero Hospital, it was already too late for a kidney transplant.

Kasavu revealed that his mother’s kidney infection was only captured by doctors at Nakasero Hospital, where she went with financial support from Gen. Proscovia Nalweyiso. Before Nakasero, he said, they had been to at least 6 other major hospitals, which had all failed to correctly diagnose the problem.

“We have to say this about Ugandan hospitals. We lost time, because we had been to six of them and non of them was able to capture the disease,” Kasavu Recounted.

The doctors at Nakasero immediately put Lagu on intensive treatment that involved boring through her side to drain the fluids that were filling up in her body.“

This procedure was so traumatizing that she even started getting hallucinations; we thought she was not going to make it,” Kasavu said.

The Nakasero doctors then recommended a kidney transplant in India.Although many Ugandans came out offering to donate their kidneys, the doctors said she needed one from a family member. Kasavu says he struggled to convince his mother to accept his kidney which she eventually agreed to.However, India at the time was under the Covid-19 lockdown and they opted for Turkey.

In Turkey, tests were made and the son was confirmed to be a viable donor. The doctors, however, told them that with the sickness at that stage, the new kidney would not be useful for long.

“They told us that my kidney would not help her beyond two years and that it would be a waste,” Kasavu Said.

“Instead they recommended that we start on dialysis which would give her a maximum of 10 years.” He Added

Since then, Lagu has been undergoing dialysis about twice a month until her body gave in last Sunday. She was laid to rest at her ancestral home at 4 pm today Wednesday.