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Extreme left is Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. DS Archives
In the evening of 19 December 1969, Professor Ian McAdam, the Head of Department of Surgery, was just exiting the hospital when he heard on the car radio that President Obote had been shot at while leaving Lugogo sports stadium, where he had just closed the UPC annual delegates’ convention. Usually by this time McAdam would already be at the club, but on Fridays he sometimes did an evening round to especially make sure the post-operative patients were comfortable, and to preempt calls late in the night. As he swung his car into Kira Road to head towards Mulago roundabout and on to the doctors’ club, he saw a convoy speeding towards the hospital entrance from the opposite direction, sirens blaring. His sixth sense told him to turn around and head back into the hospital. By the time he made the full turn at the roundabout, the motorcade had disappeared into the hospital. He returned to the parking that he had just left on Level 3, and entered the hospital through the Casualty Department. The previously calm waiting area was busy. There were soldiers and police officers standing around, and although he had taken the precaution to put on his clinical coat, they would not let him take the lift. He walked straight through to the main staircase in the central block, and then ran up to the 6th floor, taking two steps at a time. As he came up to the landing he was met by the 6th floor Matron and two younger doctors.
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