Uganda, Nov. 22 -- The management of Old Kampala hospital has issued a seven-day ultimatum to Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago to retract accusations he made that the health facility harvested a patient's kidney.

The hospital management said if Mr Lukwago, who was the lawyer of Mr Muhmood Kabanda, a former patient at the facility, fails to comply, they will sue him.

"We want the Lord Mayor to apologise to the hospital, Muslim community and the public for spreading misleading information alleging that Old Kampala hospital harvested the client's kidney without his knowledge, which is not true," Dr Faisal Kazibwe, a senior official at the hospital, told journalists in Kampala yesterday.

"This hospital is a religious-founded facility and w...