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Healthcare in Uganda. Uganda's health system is composed of health services delivered to the public sector, by private providers, and by traditional and complementary health practitioners. It also includes community-based health care and health promotion activities.
The largest state-owned hospital in Uganda is Mulago Hospital in Kampala with around 1,500 beds. It was built in 1962. [1]Ian Clarke, a physician and missionary from Northern Ireland, [2] built the 200-bed International Hospital Kampala, [3] which was the first International Organization for Standardization-certified hospital in the country.
Uganda has approximately 6,940 health facilities of which 45% are government owned, 5% are private not for profit and 40% are private for profit. Different health facilities require different health cadres depending on the specialization of care. A range of disciplines ranging from nurses, midwives, clinicians, doctors and specialists provide ...
Kampala Hospital. Kampala Hospital is a private healthcare facility in Uganda. It is a specialists' hospital and diagnostic centre. Kampala Hospital was the first hospital in Uganda to install a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine and a CT Scanner. For almost five years it was the only hospital in the country, providing these services.
IHK became operational in 2000, and was founded by Dr. Ian Clarke, a general practitioner and tropical medicine specialist, born in Northern Ireland. The hospital initially opened at a smaller premises in Old Kampala, before relocating to its current home in 2004. Since its opening in 2000, IHK has pioneered in a number of areas.
Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) is a specialized, public, tertiary care medical facility owned by the Uganda Ministry of Health. It is a component of Mulago National Referral Hospital, the largest hospital in Uganda, which serves as the teaching hospital of Makerere University College of Health Sciences. [ 1 ]
The hospital is located at 73 Buganda Road, on Nakasero Hill, in the Central Division of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. This is approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of Mulago National Referral Hospital. [2] The coordinates of Kampala Medical Chambers Hospital are: 0°19'30.0"N 32°34'31.0"E (Latitude:0.325000; Longitude:32.575278).
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