Mulago Women's Referral Hospital

Mulago Women's Referral Hospital
Uganda Ministry of Health
Geography
Location Mulago, Kampala, Uganda
Organisation
Care system Public
Hospital type General and Teaching
Affiliated university Makerere University College of Health Sciences
Services
Emergency department I
Beds 320
History
Founded 2016 (Expected)
Links
Other links Hospitals in Uganda
Medical education in Uganda

Mulago Women's Referral Hospital, 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. The women's hospital is currently under construction, beginning in April 2013, with commissioning expected in the second half of 2016.[1]

Location

The hospital is located on Mulago Hill in the northern part of the city of Kampala. It sits within the Mulago Hospital Complex, the teaching hospital of Makerere University College of Health Sciences. This location is approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), by road, north-east of Kampala's central business district.[2] The coordinates of Mulago Women's Referral Hospital are 0°20'15.0"N, 32°34'34.0"E (Latitude:0.337500; Longitude:32.576111).[3]

Overview

Mulago Women's Referral Hospital is the women's unit within Mulago National Referral Hospital. It will consist of the prenatal clinics, the delivery wards, surgical theaters, recovery rooms and postnatal wards. The hospital will cater to obstetric and gynecologic patients. It will have an oncology wing reserved for patients with gynecologic cancers, including ovarian cancer, fallopian tube cancers, uterine cancer, endometrial cancer, cervical cancer, vaginal cancer and vulvar malignancies.[4][5] The hospital will have state-of-the-art newborn wards, pre-term neonatal wards, a newborn intensive care unit and a 60 bed private wing for expectant mothers, those who have just delivered and private gynecology patients. The hospital will handle high risk prenatal and high risk gynecology cases.[5][6]

Costs, funding and timeline

The women's hospital is under construction at a budgeted cost of US$34.14 million, consisting of a loan of US$33 million from the Islamic Development Bank and US$1.14 million in direct funding by the Government of Uganda. Construction began in April 2013 and is expected to last until December 2016.[1] [7] Construction of the women's hospital coincides with the ongoing general renovation and upgrade of the entire Mulago Hospital complex at a budgeted cost of US$49 million, using a loan from the African Development Bank. Those improvements started in October 2014 and are expected to last two years.[8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Administrator, . (10 November 2014). "Makerere University College of Health Sciences And Mulago National Referral Hospital Hold Landmark Meeting To Strengthen Relations". Makerere University College of Health Sciences. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Distance Between Central Kampala And Mulago With Map". Globefeed.com. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Google. "Location of Mulago Women's Referral Hospital At Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Oketch, Angela (27 December 2014). "Cancer Costs Send Women To Uganda". Daily Nation. Nairobi. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  5. 1 2 Ninsiima, Racheal (2 March 2016). "Specialised women hospital to open next year in Mulago". The Observer (Uganda). Kampala. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  6. ↑ Kagolo, Francis (10 January 2013). "Mulago Launches Multi-Billion Women's Hospital Project". New Vision. Kampala. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  7. ↑ Ninsiima, Racheal (30 September 2014). "Mulago for Shs:128 Billion (Approximately US$49 million) Upgrade". The Observer (Uganda). Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Ayebazibwe, Agatha (11 October 2014). "Mulago Hospital Renovation Starts". Daily Monitor (Kampala). Retrieved 1 January 2015.

Coordinates: 00°20′15″N 32°34′34″E / 0.33750°N 32.57611°E / 0.33750; 32.57611

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