Thomas Aisu

In 2018, he served as a consultant pathologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, from where he was recruited to serve as an Associate Professor at Soroti University.

On the morning of Tuesday 16 October 2018, Aisu drove himself in his personal automobile to the campus of Soroti University. He came to attend a meeting of the University Senate, which was in preparation for a visit from the Uganda National Council for Higher Education the following week. Aisu made a presentation to the meeting, which took place in the university boardroom.

After his presentation, the professor collapsed and died. His body was taken, first to Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, but was later forwarded to Mulago Hospital for a postmortem. He was laid to rest at his ancestral home, in Kumi Municipality, on Saturday 20 October 2018.

Aisu worked in the past as a Laboratory Specialist Medical Officer at the World Health Organization. During the 1990s and early 2000s, he served as the Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology at Makerere University Medical School in Uganda. He also served as the Head of the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory.

In 1974 he was admitted to Makerere University School of Medicine, graduating in 1979 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree. Later, in 1988, the same medical school awarded him the Master of Medicine degree in Pathology, specializing in Microbiology.

Thomas Ongodia Aisu (January 1, 1954 — October 16, 2018), was a Ugandan medical doctor, microbiologist, academic and academic administrator, who at the time of his death, served as an Associate Professor at the Soroti University School of Health Sciences.