Holy Innocents Children's Hospital

Holy Innocents Children's Hospital
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbarara
Geography
Location	Mbarara, Mbarara District, Western Region, Uganda
Coordinates	00°37′23″S30°38′50″E / 0.62306°S 30.64722°E / -0.62306; 30.64722
Organisation
Care system	Private, non-profit
Type	Pediatric hospital
Services
Emergency department	I
Beds	100
History
Opened	2009
Links
Website	Homepage
Other links	Hospitals in Uganda

Holy Innocents Children's Hospital (HICH) is a pediatric general hospital in the Western Region of Uganda. Founded in 2009, ^[1] it is the second entirely pediatric hospital in the country, the other being CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda (CCHU), located in Mbale, in Eastern Uganda, which was founded in 2000. ^[2]

Location

HICH is located in the city of Mbarara, in Mbarara District, approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, the largest hospital in the Western Region of Uganda, and the nearest regional referral hospital. ^[3]

This location is approximately 272 kilometres (169 mi), by road southwest of Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. ^[4]

Overview

The hospital is a collaborative effort between many stakeholders, including the following: ^[1]

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbarara
• Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau
• University of San Diego School of Nursing & Health Sciences
• University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
• Children's Hospital Oakland
• Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego
• California State University, Northridge
• Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
• Private businesspeople and entrepreneurs
• Donors and volunteers worldwide ^[1]

Operation

Holy Innocents Children's Hospital is a member of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau. As of October 2020, its capacity was 55 beds. Annual outpatient visits were 20,468, with 3,922 annual admissions. Patient user fees accounted for 45.3 percent of the total hospital annual income. ^{[5] [6]}

See also

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbarara
• Hospitals in Uganda

References

1. Holy Innocents Children's Hospital (October 2020). "About Holy Innocents Children's Hospital: A Tribute to Tom Thomas, Founder of Holy Innocents Children's Hospital Uganda, Inc". Holy Innocents Children's Hospital. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
2. CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda (23 October 2020). "About CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda". Mbale, Uganda: CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda . Retrieved 23 October 2020.
3. "Road Distance Between Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital And Holy Innocents Children's Hospital" (Map). Google Maps . Retrieved 23 October 2020.
4. "Road Distance Between Mulago National Referral Hospital And Holy Innocents Children's Hospital" (Map). Google Maps . Retrieved 23 October 2020.
5. Amone, Joseph; Asio, Salome; Cattaneo, Adriano; Kweyatulira, Annet Kakinda; Macaluso, Anna; Maciocco, Gavino; Mukokoma, Maurice; Ronfani, Luca; Santini, Stefano (4 May 2005). "User fees in private non-for-profit hospitals in Uganda: a survey and intervention for equity". International Journal for Equity in Health. 4 (1) 6. BioMed Central Ltd. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-4-6 . PMC   1142334 . PMID   15871744.
6. Lagarde, Mylene; Palmer, Natasha (November 2008). "The impact of user fees on health service utilization in low- and middle-income countries: how strong is the evidence?". Bulletin of the World Health Organization (in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic). 86 (11): 839–848, A–C. doi:10.2471/BLT.07.049197. PMC   2649541 . PMID   19030689. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013.