Saint Luke's Hospital, Angal, commonly known as Angal Hospital , is a private, community hospital in ''Angal Village'',

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Location

The hospital is located in ''Angal Village'', ''Pamora Parish'', ''Nyaravur sub-county'', ''Padyere County'',

. This location lies approximately , by road, south of ''Nyaravur'', on the road to ''Parombo''. Angal is located approximately , by road, southeast of

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, where the district headquarters are located. The geographical coordinates of Angal Hospital are: 02°24'33.0"N, 31°11'36.0"E (Latitude:2.409167; Longitude:31.193333).

Overview

Angal Hospital is a

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owned by the

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. It is accredited to the ''Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau'', and it is administered by the

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, a religious congregation. The hospital serves patients from within

and from the neighboring districts of

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and Zombo. Some of the patients come from the neighboring countries of

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and the

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. The hospital has a bed capacity of 260. It employs 153 full-time medical and support staff, as of January 2009.

History

St. Luke's Hospital, Angal was founded in the early 1940s by the

, as a ''maternity center''. In the early 1950s, the center was upgraded to a

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. In 1959, the facility was granted full hospital privileges. It attained the status of a ''rural hospital'' on 13 May 1959.

Hospital operations

The hospital depends on donations and subsidies from the Ugandan government in order to meet its financial obligations. A small fee is charged for patient services, but no one is turned away because of inability to pay. During the financial year 2007/2008, the hospital's total expenses were USh (Approx. US$524,914). Only 8.1% of the total was recovered from patient user fees. The hospital expenses that same year broke down as follows:

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