Otim v Uganda (HCT-09-CR-CM-0013 of 2017) [2017] UGHCCRD 79 (28 April 2017)

**THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA**

**IN THE HIGH COURT OF UGANDA**

**HOLDEN AT SOROTI**

**HCT-09-CR-CM-0013 OF 2017**

**OTIM FELIX::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::APPLICANT**

***VERSUS***

**UGANDA::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::RESPONDENT**

**BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP HON. MR. JUSTICE BATEMA N. D. A, JUDGE**

**Ruling**

This is a bail application based on exceptional circumstances of grave illness. The applicant relied on medical notes and a letter from the Clinical Officer at Soroti Prison.

With due respect a Clinical Officer is so junior. I doubt whether this Clinical Officer at the prison is a specialist in the treatment of what he wrote in the letter. He should have referred the prisoner (patient) to the nearby Soroti Regional Referral Hospital with competent doctors. The worst would have been Mulago hospital or Murchison Bay prison hospital.

The bail application is dismissed for lack of merit.

**Judge**

**28/4/2017**