Itojo Hospital, is a hospital in Itojo,

Ntungamo District Ntungamo District is a district in Western Uganda. Like most Ugandan districts, it named after its 'chief town', Ntungamo, the location of the district headquarters. Ntungamo was elevated to a district on 5th May 1993. Overview In the past, Ntun ...

, in Western Uganda.

Location

Itojo Hospital is located in Itojo Trading Centre, along the

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, approximately , southwest of

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, the largest city in the

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. This location lies approximately , by road, northeast of

Ntungamo Ntungamo is a town in the Western Region of Uganda. It is the largest town in Ntungamo District and the site of the district headquarters. Location Ntungamo is about , by road, southwest of the city of Mbarara, the largest city in Uganda's West ...

, the largest town in the district, and the location of the district headquarters. The geographical coordinates of Itojo Hospital are: 0°47'16.0"S, 30°16'38.0"E (Latitude:-0.787778; Longitude:30.277222).

Overview

Itojo hospital is a rural hospital built in the 1968 by the administration of Prime Minister

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. It serves

together with some parts of neighboring Northern Tanzania and Northeastern Rwanda. It has a bed capacity of 120, although sometimes many more patients are admitted, with many sleeping on the floor. Over the years the hospital infrastructure has deteriorated. In 2006, the then area

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, who is also the First Lady of Uganda,

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, started to solicit funding from both internal and external sources, to rehabilitate the hospital. In 2007, the

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, through the Egyptian Fund for Technical Cooperation with Africa, donated US$280,000 to rehabilitate the hospital, including the construction of three new staff houses. Egypt also pledged to send three specialists; a

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, an

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and a

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, to work at the hospital as part of the assistance package. The construction work was contracted out to ''Excel Construction Company Limited'', a subsidiary of the

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. In June 2011, Egypt donated pharmaceuticals, an electricity generator and other hospital supplies to assist in the rehabilitation of the hospital.

References

External links

Ntungamo District Information Portal

Location of Itojo Hospital At Google Maps

Egyptian Government Rehabilitates Itojo Hospital
{{Districts of Uganda Hospital buildings completed in 1968 Hospitals in Uganda Ntungamo District Ankole sub-region Western Region, Uganda 1968 establishments in Uganda

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