By Kabuye Ronald
Minister of health Jane Ruth Aceng has revealed that the fallen speaker of parliament and National Resistance Movement vice chairperson Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah succumbed to multiple organ failure.
According to the medical report from Seattle, USA where former Speaker Jacob Oulanyah was admitted and breathed his last, read by the health minister to parliament he died of multiple organ failure.to parliament
“The immediate cause of death was multi organ failure. The heart failed, the lungs failed, the liver failed and the kidney failed,” Dr.Aceng told parliament on the request of Speaker Anita Among.
She told parliament that Oulanyah’s liver started failing while he was still in Uganda as well as the lungs that she said had started collecting fluids while the kidney and heart failed while in Seatle.
Dr. Aceng also revealed that Oulanyah had multiple bacterial infections while still here and viral infections while in Seattle. Adding that the treatment for viral infections further suppressed the bone marrow.”
She further revealed that Oulanyah’s difficulties started in 2019 when he discovered he had a swelling in the neck.
Oulanyah was earlier this year flown out of the country to the US for specialized treatment but died on March, 20,2022.
