Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, commonly known as Soroti Hospital is a hospital in the city of

Soroti Soroti is a city in Eastern Region of Uganda. It is the main City, commercial, and administrative center in curved out of Soroti District, one of the nine administrative districts in the Teso sub-region. Soroti City was immediately approved f ...

, in

Soroti District Soroti District is a district in Eastern Uganda. It is named after its chief municipal, administrative and commercial headquarters, Soroti, where the district headquarters are located. Location Soroti District is bordered by Amuria District to th ...

, in

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. It is the referral hospital for the districts of

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, Kapelebyong,

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, Kumi,

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Soroti Hospital is located in the

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of the city of

, about , by road, northwest of

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, in the city of

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. This is approximately , southeast of

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, in the city of

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. Soroti Regional Referral Hospital is located about , by road, northeast of

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, in

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, Uganda's

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. The coordinates of Soroti Regional Referral Hospital are:1°42'58.0"N, 33°36'47.0"E (Latitude:1.716111; Longitude:33.613056).

Overview

Soroti Hospital is a public hospital, funded by the

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and general care in the hospital is free. It is one of the 13 Regional Referral Hospitals in Uganda. Uganda Has Thirteen Regional Referral Hospitals The hospital is designated as one of the 15 Internship Hospitals in Uganda where graduates of Ugandan medical schools can serve one year of internship under the supervision of qualified specialists and consultants. The bed capacity of Soroti Hospital was quoted as 250, as of October 2000. In October 2020, the hospital's bed capacity was quoted at 274.

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The hospital was established in the mid 1920s as a treatment centre for syphilis. It was elevated to a district hospital in 1978 and it became a referral hospital in 1996. Soroti Regional Referral Hospital is governed by a 19-person

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, chaired by Dr Charles Vincent Ojoome, effective August 2019. Dr Michael Mwanga the hospital's

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is the secretary to the hospital's board.

References

External links

Soroti District Internet Portal

{{Soroti District Hospitals in Uganda Soroti District Soroti Teso sub-region Eastern Region, Uganda Teaching hospitals in Uganda

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