Ailing Police officer faces death due to lack of enough money for treatment

Assistant Superintendent of Police Rashid Semugenyi is fighting for his life in the ailing health system of Uganda. The Police officer is seeking cash assistance for his deteriorating health after accumulating medical bill to Shs 40m.

This is his story:

ASP Rashid Semugenyi, is a 28-year old police officer formerly working in Mitooma District. He is scheduled to travel to India for a kidney transplant.

While Police has pledged to clear his bills in India, he must first be fit to travel, which is why he has been undergoing dialysis at Case Hospital in Kampala.

He has spent a month at Case Hospital, most of which has been in the ICU thus racking up bills of over Shs 40 million to date.

Semugenyi on treatment bed

The Police Force has either refused or failed to clear this bill. Sometime back city activist and Bryan White Foundation CEO, Bryan White, paid Shs 10 million to clear part of the bill.

Shs30 million is remaining- but after failing to get payment’s from the Police, Case Hospital has now discontinued treatment and referred him to the government owned Kiruddu hospital, where the few dialysis machines are under huge demand.   His fellow police officers are trying in vain, to raise this money, but all in vain.

His condition is deteriorating every other day. As of now, he needs to do an emergence dialysis before he becomes an ICU case again.

THIS EMERGENCE DIALYSIS COSTS ONLY Shs450,000.

If you have any little money on your mobile phone- please send anything to his wife Aisha Tariq on +256 704 606498 or his friend and lead campaigner ASP Mubarak Semakula (+256772194319)