By Simon Masaba and Violet Nabatanzi
The
Police have arrested Dr. Asinja Kapuru over his role in the alteration
of medical documents leading to the swapping of a live male baby with a
dead female one.
On 12 July 2006, the Uganda Medical and Dental
Practitioner’s Council heard that Kapuru was involved in switching Sauda
Nabakiibi’s live male baby with a dead female one at Mulago Hospital.
On Monday, Kapuru appeared before the Criminal
Intelligence and Investigations Directorate (CIID)) to respond to
summons over his role in switching the babies.
Police detectives attached to CIID based in Kibuli,
Kampala interrogated Kapuru for six hours and by press time, he was
still being questioned by the Police.
A highly placed Police detective from CIID told New
Vision that the Police were grilling Kapuru over the role he played
during the time Sauda Nabakiibi lost her baby at Mulago Hospital in
2006.
Last week the council suspended Kapuru from practising medicine for two years in Uganda and the rest of the world.
According to council, Kapuru, reported that he
delivered Nabakiibi of a baby boy by caesarean section, but it was in
poor condition because of severe asphyxia (breathing complications at
birth).
During the council’s investigations, he further
stated that he filled in two reports, the first one indicating that the
baby was male and the second one indicating that the baby was female.
Kapuru also explained to the council that he was
convinced to change the record by a senior nursing officer, who insisted
that the baby was a girl, arguing that all other records indicated that
it was a girl, except his record which indicated that the baby was a
boy.
He stated that he blindly believed the nurse that
he could not have been keen in recognising that the baby was a girl and
accepted to re-write the theatre notes.
He expressed regret for agreeing to alter the theatre record.
