Ruling on Namubiru’s appeal pushed

The ruling on an appeal filed by jailed Nurse Rose Mary Namubiru challenging her conviction and jail term has been pushed forward.
Deputy registrar of the High court criminal division Festo Nsenga said the ruling is not ready and the presiding judge Alrbert Rugadya was away.
The case will now be determined on November 6, this year.
Namubiru was convicted and sentenced to three years in jail after Buganda Road Court found her guilty of criminal negligence that could have led to the infection of a child with HIV.

Court ruled that Namubiru was criminally negligent when she used an intravenous needle on the child after accidently pricking herself with the same needle.
In her appeal she insists that the trial magistrate Olive Kazarwe failed to properly evaluate the evidence on record and reached a wrong conclusion.
The 64year Namubiru has been in prison since January 2014 to date.
This comes barely a month after the baby (Namubiru’s victim) sued the health facility where his mother had taken him to receive treatment over negligence.
Early this month, the two-year-old Mathew Mushabe, with the help of his mother, Ms Ruth Mushabe, filed a civil suit against Victoria Medical Centre located in Kampala before the High Court.

In their complaint, they contend that on January 7, the hospital and its nurse, Namubiru, owed a duty of care to the little boy but chose to breach it by neglecting to meet the standards of professional practice.
The mother and her baby want the High Court to find the healthy facility culpable of negligence to which they should be ordered to compensate them.