Prof. Charles Ssali is dead.

Charles Ssali Lwanga Kabalu, the doctor behind the Mariandina Clinic for HIV/Aids patients died yesterday, a month after he was admitted in critical condition at the Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago. Ssali, had been on life-support system. Over the weekend, he was unable to recognise close relatives, including his children who had just arrived from the United Kingdom. Burial arrangements were not known by yesterday. "It is rather unfortunate," said Mr Apolo Muhairwa, the National Drug Authority Executive Director. "There is no doubt he was the best in ear, nose and throat (ENT) research." Ssali returned to Uganda from Britain in 1988 to start Aids research. In perhaps his last press interview a month ago, Ssali revealed that he met President Yoweri Museveni two months before. He was a bitter man. He wanted to complain about why his Aids drugs were not licensed. The NDA rejected the drugs saying they were mere vitamins. Ssali was also bitter that the government had licensed Anti-retrovirals, which reportedly have side effects. Museveni reportedly told him to bring him people he had treated with his drugs. Ssali told The Monitor people around the President had denied his patients access to Museveni. Born on September 3, 1930 in Masaka, Ssali had a career that spurned three continents and several countries, including Uganda, Kenya, England and Saudi Arabia. He was Uganda's first ENT professor at Mulago.
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Biographical details: http://www.mariandina.com/dr-ssali-biography.htm