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Mulago National Referral Hospital, commonly known as Mulago Hospital, is a hospital in Uganda.
The hospital is located on Mulago Hill in the northern part of the city of Kampala. It sits adjacent to and to the immediate west of Makerere University College of Health Sciences. This location lies approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), by road, northeast of Kampala's central business district.[2] The coordinates of Mulago Hospital are:0°20'16.0"N, 32°34'32.0"E (Latitude:0.337786; Longitude:32.575550).[3]
It is the largest hospital in Uganda. It is the teaching hospital of Makerere University College of Health Sciences. It is also one of the three National Referral Hospitals in the country, the other two being Butabika National Referral Hospital and Mbarara National Referral Hospital. The hospital offers services in most medical and surgical sub-specialties, in addition to dentistry, emergency medicine, pediatrics and intensive care.[4]
Old Mulago was founded in 1913 by Albert Ruskin Cook. The New Mulago facility was completed in 1962. The hospital has an official capacity of 1,790 beds, although it often houses over 3,000 patients. In 2012, the annual hospital budget totaled USh33.2 billion (approximately US$13 million). The funds are insufficient; the facility needs about three times its annual budget to function properly; (USh100 billion or US$40 million)[5]
In October 2014, major renovations and rehabilitation works commenced at the hospital, with the aim of bringing about structural and performance improvements at the national health institution. The rehabilitation works, estimated to last 24 months, are the largest renovation works to the facility, since the New Mulago (Lower Mulago) hospital block was completed 52 years from the date. The construction budget is planned at US$49 million, financed by a loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB). During the rehabilitation works, only true medical emergencies and properly referred patients will be attended to at the facility, with other cases being deflected to the other 14 national & regional referral hospitals and to Naguru General Hospital. As part of the planned changes, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), will be enlarged from the current 5 beds to 25; the mortuary will expand from 16 slots to 160, and the operating theatres will increase from the current 6 to 16.[6]
Tanzania, Kampala, South Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya
Uganda, Buganda, Kampala District, Kabaka of Buganda, Makerere University
Medicine, Orthodontics, Oral and maxillofacial surgery, Psychiatry, Cancer
Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Emergency medical services, Pediatrics, Sports medicine
Kampala, Uganda, Jinja District, Rakai District, Mulago Hospital
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Master of Public Health
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, United Nations, Africa
Uganda, Makerere University, Kampala, Public health, Physician