Jailed nurse appeals against her three year sentence
Namubiru in a dock at Buganda Road court during the hearing of a case in which she was accused of pricking a baby with a contaminated cannula Photo by Abubaker Lubowa
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Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate, Ms Olive Kazaarwe convicted Ms Namubiru after prosecution, closed its line of nine witnesses who testified against the convict
KAMPALA
After spending seven months in jail, the nurse who was convicted for pricking a baby with a contaminated cannula was on Tuesday, listed as one of the convicts whose appeal against the three- year- jail term is yet to be scheduled for hearing.
According to the list pinned up at High Court in Kampala, Ms Rosemary Namubiru, 64, is challenging her conviction and sentence on grounds that court was unfair on her. She also applied for bail pending hearing of her appeal.
Ms Namubiru was convicted on May 19,this year by the Buganda Road court magistrate over negligence after she was found guilty of using a cannula on a baby that had earlier pricked her, much aware that she is HIV positive. She was arrested by Wandegeya police for maliciously injecting her patients mainly the children with her HIV positive blood.
Prosecution alleged that while on duty at Victoria Medical Centre on Lumumba Avenue in Kampala on January 7, this year, Ms Namubiru pricked her index finger before using the same cannula to prick the vein of a baby, aware that she is HIV-positive.
Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate, Ms Olive Kazaarwe convicted Ms Namubiru after prosecution, closed its line of nine witnesses who testified against the convict.
The case at the time of Ms Namubiru’s trial and subsequent conviction raised much dust in the public with some human rights activists claiming she (Ms Namubiru) did not deserve such a sentence, given her health status, age and gender, among other things while others called for a stringent punishment against her on claims that she had done the ‘unthinkable’.
