Mulago Women's Referral Hospital, whose official name is Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital, is a component of

Mulago National Referral Hospital Mulago National Specialised Hospital, also known as Mulago National Referral Hospital, is a component of Mulago Hospital Complex, the teaching facility of Makerere University College of Health Sciences. It is the largest public hospital in Ug ...

, the largest hospital in Uganda, which serves as the teaching hospital of

Makerere University College of Health Sciences Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) is a constituent college of Makerere University, Uganda's oldest university. The schools of the college offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the biomedical sciences, health science ...

. The women's hospital was constructed from April 2013, with commissioning originally expected in the second half of 2016. After delays, construction was completed in July 2018.

Location

The hospital is located on

Mulago Hill Mulago is a hill in north-central Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. The hill rises above sea level. The name also applies to the neighborhoods that sit on this hill. Location Mulago is in Kawempe Division, one of the five administrative di ...

in the northern part of the city of

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Ruba ...

. It sits within the Mulago Hospital Complex, the teaching hospital of

. This location is approximately , by road, north of Kampala's central business district. The coordinates of Mulago Women's Referral Hospital are 0°20'16.0"N, 32°34'41.0"E (Latitude:0.337778; Longitude:32.578056).

Overview

Mulago Women's Referral Hospital is the women's unit within Mulago National Referral Hospital. It consists of the prenatal clinics, the delivery wards, surgical theaters, recovery rooms and postnatal wards. The hospital caters to obstetric and gynecologic patients. It has 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. The hospital has a unit specializing on obstetric fistula prevention, repair and rehabilitation. It also houses the first public fertility clinic in the country.

Bed allocation

, the hospital's beds were subdivided into the following classes: Note: Totals may be slightly off due to rounding

Costs, funding and timeline

The women's hospital was constructed at a budgeted cost of US$34.14 million, consisting of a loan of US$33 million from the

Islamic Development Bank The Islamic Development Bank ( ar, البنك الإسلامي للتنمية, abbreviated as IsDB) is a multilateral development finance institution that is focused on Islamic finance for infrastructure development and located in Jeddah, Saudi ...

and US$1.14 million in direct funding by the Government of Uganda. Construction began in April 2013 and was 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 The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) or (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, since September 2014. The AfDB is a financial provider to African governments and private companies ...

. Those improvements started in October 2014 and were originally expected to last two years. As of August 2017, construction was still in progress. Construction was finally concluded in July 2018. The Mulago Women and Neonatal Hospital is expected to admit the first patient on 17 September 2018. It is expected to employ 788 people.

Management

In August 2018, the Uganda Ministry of Health appointed Dr. Evelyn Nabunya, a Senior Consultant Gynecologist as the

executive director Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer of a non-profit organization, government agency or international organization. The title is widely used in North American and European not-for-profit organizations, though ...

of the hospital and Dr. Jolly Nankunda, as the deputy executive director.

References

External links

Artistic impression of Mulago Women's Referral Hospital

Mulago Hospital Web Site

Profile of Mulago Women's Referral Hospital
{{Kampala District Hospitals in Kampala Makerere University Kawempe Division Kampala Capital City Authority Hospitals established in 2018 2018 establishments in Uganda Teaching hospitals in Uganda