Francis Miiro

Francis A. Miiro, (2 August 1934 – 30 March 2008), was a consultant obstetrician and gynecologist in Uganda, who served as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Makerere University School of Medicine and concurrently as senior consultant obstetrician and gynecologists at Mulago National Referral Hospital, the teaching hospital of the medical school.

Later he undertook postgraduate studies at Queen's University Belfast, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he obtained the title of Member of the Royal College of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) in 1968.

[1] He was appointed as a lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology at Makerere University Medical School in 1968.

[1][2] In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was the lead investigator in clinical trials where Makerere University was a study center.

[3] He died on 30 March 2008 at Mulago National Referral Hospital, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 73.