Care system Public Emergency department I Number of beds 320 | Hospital type General and Teaching Founded 2016 (Expected) | |
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Location Mulago, Kampala, Uganda Other links Hospitals in Uganda
Medical education in Uganda Affiliated university Makerere University College of Health Sciences | ||
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.
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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. 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).
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. 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.
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. 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.