Mulago Hospital

Mulago National Referral Hospital
Uganda Ministry of Health
Geography
Location	Mulago, Kampala, Uganda
Organisation
Care system	Public
Hospital type	General and Teaching
Affiliated university	Makerere University College of Health Sciences
Services
Emergency department	I
Beds	1,500+
History
Founded	1917
Links
Website	Homepage
Other links	Hospitals in Uganda Medical education in Uganda

Mulago National Referral Hospital, commonly known as Mulago Hospital, is a hospital in Uganda.

The hospital is on Mulago Hill in the northern part of the city of Kampala, immediately west of the Makerere University College of Health Sciences. It is approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), by road, north-east of Kampala's central business district. The coordinates of the hospital are 0°20'16.0"N, 32°34'32.0"E (Latitude:0.337786; Longitude:32.575550).

It is the largest hospital in Uganda and the teaching hospital of the Makerere University College of Health Sciences. It is also one of the two national referral hospitals in the country, the other one being Butabika National Referral Hospital. The hospital offers services in most medical and surgical sub-specialties, in addition to dentistry, emergency medicine, pediatrics, and intensive care.

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 was USh33.2 billion. "Apparently, to run effectively, Mulago needs thrice its current budget."

In October 2014, major renovations and rehabilitation works commenced at the hospital, the purpose of which was to bring about structural and performance improvements. These works, estimated to last 24 months, were the largest renovation works to the facility since the New Mulago (Lower Mulago) hospital block was completed 52 years before. The construction budget was planned at US$49 million, financed by a loan from the African Development Bank. During the rehabilitation works, only true medical emergencies and properly referred patients were attended to at the facility, with other cases being deflected to the other 14 national and regional referral hospitals and to Naguru General Hospital. As part of the planned changes, the intensive care unit was enlarged from 5 to 25 beds; the mortuary was expanded from 16 to 160 slots; and, the operating theatres were increased from 6 to 16. As of December 2015, the first phase of rehabilitation, consisting of approximately 40 percent of the total works, was reported to be complete. The second phase of the renovation is expect to last another 12 months.

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