The Chief Justice, Bart Katureebe has flown to South Africa for cataract surgery, which involves the removal of the eye lens and replacing it with an artificial one, URN reports.
According to Mayo Clinic.org, a cataract causes the lens to become cloudy,
which eventually affects your vision. Sources in the judiciary indicate that
Justice Katureebe left the country on Monday around 2:30pm aboard Fly Emirates.
He was accompanied by his wife Bernadette Katureebe and personal assistant,
Aloysius Natwijuka who will be attending to him after the surgery. Justice
Katureebe is expected back in Uganda on May 17th, 2019 if the eye operation
goes well.
This is the second surgery the chief justice in undergoing within a space of
less one two month. In March, Justice Katureebe spent three weeks in South
Africa for another operation on his left arm.
Sources say Katureebe was operated following severe pain on his shoulders and
back. During the launch of Video Conferencing facilities at Buganda road court
road court on April 15th, 2019, Justice Katureebe delegated a junior officer to
read his speech citing eyesight complications.
He couldn’t also read his judgment in the Supreme Court on the consolidated Age
Limit Appeals challenging the Constitutional Amendment number 2 Act of
2017. Katureebe told court that he had health issues mostly to do with his
eyes.
He later delegated Justice Eldard Mwanguhya to read his judgment, which led to
the dismissal of the appeals. Mabirizi has since vowed to petition the Supreme
Court seeking a review of Katureebe’s Judgment on grounds that a judgment
delivered by a ‘blind person’ is null and void.
