Died of multiple organ failure: Jacob Oulanyah.
A medical report has indicated that former Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, died of multiple organ failure.
Oulanyah was announced dead on March 20, 2022.
He was earlier admitted at a specialized hospital in Seattle, Unites States of America.
While briefing a special sitting of Parliament in his honour on Tuesday, Health Minister Dr. Jane Aceng said Oulanyah suffered heart, lungs, kidney and liver failure.
She has told parliament that Oulanyah’s liver started failing while he was still in Uganda. This, she said, was followed by complications in his lungs as it started collecting fluids.
She told parliament that the kidney and heart failed while in Seattle.
He also had multiple bacterial infections while still at home and further suffered viral infections while in Seattle. She added that the treatment for viral infections further suppressed the bone marrow.
Dr. Aceng traced Oulanyah’s ill health to 2019 when he (Oulanyah) discovered he had a swelling in the neck.
According to Dr. Aceng, it was a relatively big swelling and took Oulanyah to seek medical attention in Germany.
“The swelling was removed, analysed and he was told it was cancer,” Dr. Aceng said.
He was started on treatment which he finished in Uganda at the Cancer Institute.
She says from them Oulanyah started visiting several other hospitals in a bid to get treatment for the same illness but noted there were challenges when the covid-19 lockdown set in and the 2021 election campaigns that he didn’t get time to go for treatment abroad.
By the time Oulanyah was flon out of the country, his condition had deteriorated.
According to Dr. Aceng, because of the suppressed bone marrow, his body could not produce white and red blood cells whereas he had also developed multi-drug resistant bacteria which he had acquired after staying in hospital for too long.
