The legal fraternity in the country is mourning the death of one of its budding lawyers, Mary Wakyogera, who passed on at Nsambya Hospital on Saturday, October 15, 2022. Wakyogera had been admitted to Nsambya Hospital after she was found with a blood clot in her brain and had been referred to the Aga Khan Hospital for further management.
Her friend, Flavia Wejuli, said: “My friend, my sweety, my companion, my partner in everything! I am so sorry, love. I can’t believe I am saying rest in peace girl,” on social media. Wakyogera had been diagnosed with Corpus callosum Hematoma and edema of the left lobe of the brain.
The Corpus callosum is a hard, C-shaped structure found in the middle of the brain. It acts as a connective pathway that links the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere of the cerebral cortex. Each hemisphere of the brain controls movement and feeling on the opposite side of the body.
According to doctors, Corpus callosum damage can lead to loss of contact between the hemispheres, which can cause a variety of disorders. Some of the most common conditions related to corpus callosum injury are pseudobulbar palsy (a condition that affects the ability to control the muscles of your face).
Its possible causes are traumatic brain injury, hypertension, ruptured anterior communicating artery or pericallosal artery aneurysm and bleeding associated with tumors, among others. Her family needed sh100m to fund the treatment and friends, especially those in the legal fraternity, had started contributing.
A friend, who spoke to New Vision, said Wakyogera had been put on life support. “On Saturday, doctors recommended that she be withdrawn from life support, but the Mother had insisted that they wait. However, given her condition, the mother allowed and she was withdrawn from the life support,” the colleague said.
Details about her burial remained scanty by press time as the family was still locked up in a meeting discussing her interment arrangements.
