The Heartbreaking Story of How the Pregnant TV West Presenter Ritah Survived Covid 19

Many Ugandan celebrities that survived Covid 19 have come out and told their stories but never had we come accross one that is so heartbreaking like that of TV West presenter Ritah Tumuhimbise who got sick while heavily pregnant.

Ritah is a Ugandan TV Presenter on TV West and she does a show called "Sisimuka" and she is also an Online content creator under her YouTube Channel called The Cooking Nurse, but the past few weeks have been a near death experience for her.

Being a mother of a beautiful son, the Mbarara based Vision Group employee went through an experience no mother or pregnant woman deserves to ever go through, the frasturation of hospitals and being sick without anyone to help.

Through her YouTube channel, Ritah shared her story with the world narrating how it all started when she got simple flu and cough which later on led to fevers and loss of smell.

"I got sick with flu and cough but thought I could treat myself from home, whe I lost my sense of smell and taste i started getting worried until a friend encouraged me to go to the hospital, but once I reached Mbarara Refferal Hospital the doctors were rude and unattending until I lost my breath and fainted. One person rushed to me and admitted me, I was put on oxygen but everytime i went off to ease my self I easily lost my breath"- Ritah partially narrates.

After testing for Covid 19, Ritah was released from the hospital before knowing her results and was sent back home, a few days later the sickness got once and everytime she called the hospital to ask about her results no one answered, right until they sent her wrong results showing she was negative yet in the process she was dangering her family.

"After persisting the hospital sent me the test results which showed that I was Negative but when I checked the date it was the wrong date of the test, so i got concerned and frasturated asking them for my real results, I did not know what to do as I was so sick, not even my neighboring doctors could help"- She continues to narrate.

Watch her full testimony below:

When doing a follow up study, Blizz Uganda had an interview with Ritah asking her how she recovered and whether her baby is still safe and she revealed that she took some UVI's from home and during the whole time while smelling her death she could hear her unborn child kicking which ensured her that the baby is still safe.

"Yes I was so scared for my baby but with help from my husband and mother I was able to recover though now my mother is also sick. I went for another Covid test 10 days ago and the results were negative and in a few days I shall be going for an Antenatal."- she ensured us.

Ritah Tumuhimbise

Covid 19 cases in Uganda have been rising for the past two months, with cases doubling each day in different cities which forced President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to command an immediate 42days lockdown encouraging Ugandans to stay home allowing only essential workers to travel with special permits.