Slowly circling the medical team at Mulago is a Ugandan-born Canadian, Dr Shafique Pirani, whose pioneering orthopaedic work may give the infant a better chance in life. Born in 1957, Pirani suffered a life-threatening bout of polio at age three, which left him with a pronounced limp. At seven, he went to England with his mother for some corrective surgery. There, they met an orthopaedic doctor who was himself disabled.
“Your son will make a fine orthopaedic surgeon,” the doctor told Pirani’s mother. From then on, says Pirani, “Mum felt I could be something. Like any mother, she had been worried about what was going to happen to me.”
In 1972, when Pirani was 15, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin forced out the country’s Asians. Initially, the Pirani family went to England, then settled in Canada in 1973. In 1982, Pirani graduated with a medical degree from the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in London, England
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