Bank of Uganda Governor Mutebile admitted in Nairobi.
According to the state media New Vision a source close to the governor said he was admitted at Agha Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya on what doctors are calling diabetes-related complications after he collapsed on the eve of the new year 2022.
The source added that the governor is being closely monitored by his personal doctor who does not leave his bedside.
“The big man is of advanced age and such complications are common. We pray he comes back stronger,” the source said.
Charity Mugumya, the BoU communications officer, when contacted, only said the Governor is in Nairobi on his routine medical checkup and denied reports of him being admitted.
“He is simply on a scheduled medical check-up. That’s all I can say because I am not his doctor,” he said in an interview.
This is not the first time the governor has been admitted to the hospital due to poor health. It shall be recalled that in 2015, he was hospitalized in South Africa.
Mutebile was on Saturday, March 28, 2020, admitted to Nakasero Hospital where he spent several days before gaining full recovery.
Mutebile was in January 2021 re-appointed as the governor of the Bank of Uganda for a fifth five-year term.
He was first appointed governor in 2001.
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