Doctors Write to UCC Demanding Ban on Gravity Omutujju’s New Song “Doozi”

The President of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA), Dr. Herbert Luswata, has criticized local rapper Gereson Wabuyi, known as Gravity Omutujju, for misrepresenting the medical profession in his latest music video featuring Shakira Shakiraa.

Speaking to the press, Dr. Luswata expressed his dismay at the portrayal of doctors in the video for the song “Doozi,” stating that it paints an unflattering and inaccurate image of the medical profession. He emphasized that the video undermines the dignity and ethics of medical practitioners.

Dr. Luswata disclosed that he is collaborating with the chairman of ethics and professionalism at UMA to draft a letter requesting the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) to ban the song on moral grounds. He highlighted specific scenes in the video where Gravity Omutujju, dressed in a clinical coat, mimics examining Shakira Shakiraa in a manner that he described as inappropriate and disrespectful to the medical profession.

“There are circulating images of musicians on social media that depict one of the musicians holding a syringe-like object while a woman is bending down uncomfortably. The musician is wearing a clinical coat and portraying a medical examination, which is an ugly misrepresentation of our profession,” Dr. Luswata said.

He stressed that such portrayals could lead the public to believe that this is how doctors behave in examination rooms, which is far from the truth. “As a profession, we feel our practice is being abused. It is as if these people are trying to portray that this is what we do to people’s women when they come to our examination rooms, which is not good at all,” he added.

The UMA’s chairman of ethics and professionalism, Dr. Kaweru, is drafting a letter to the UCC to seek the ban of the song on moral grounds. Dr. Luswata extended apologies to the musicians involved but stood firm on the need to protect the integrity of the medical profession.

Gravity Omutujju has become the first artist to be publicly called out by the UMA for misusing medical attire in a music video. This incident follows previous criticisms from the Catholic Church directed at artists like Dr. Hilderman and Fresh Kid for using religious attire without permission.