LORD MAYOR’S HEALTH CONDITION: Erias Lukwago Hospitalized in Nairobi, Set to Undergo Surgery

Kampala Capital City Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago is currently admitted at Nairobi Hospital in Kenya, Uganda’s eastern neighbour. He says he is battling spine or cervical disc bulge.

Lukwago has been sick for about a month. He has been admitted at Nairobi Hospital for days now.

This is the fourth facility Lukwago is going to for spine or cervical disc bulge treatment.

Lukwago says he first went to a clinic where doctors told him he could have suffered muscle spasms. They gave him some drugs but he says these didn’t help.

He would then proceed to Lubaga Hospital to check if it was not a blood clot. He proceeded to Nakasero for an MRI test which confirmed a cervical disc bulge on his spinal cord.

Lukwago says he been on painkillers.

But doctors have told him that it may require a surgical operation to remove the bulge and put in an implant.

“For about a month now I have had a problem with the left arm. A disease numbed this [left] arm and caused extreme pain. I feel like nails, pins and electricity piercing through,” said Lukwago.

“[I have] been here for a couple of days battling a spine or cervical disc bulge that has compressed the nerve roots, causing numbness and excruciating pain in the back and left arm.”

Erias Lukwago was previously in Kenya for treatment in 2020 and 2021. (See Details Here and There).