Kabale Hospital
hospital in Kabale, Uganda
Kabale Regional Referral Hospital, commonly known as Kabale Hospital, is a hospital in the town of Kabale in Kabale District, in south-western Uganda. It is the referral hospital for the districts of Kabale, Kanungu, Rubanda, Rukiga, Kisoro and Rukungiri. It is proposed that the hospital will become the teaching hospital of Kabale University once its medical school is established.
Location
Kabale Hospital is located in the central business district of the town of Kabale, approximately 139 kilometres (86 mi), by road, south-west of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
This is about 406 kilometres (252 mi) south-west of Mulago National Referral Hospital. The coordinates of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital are 1°15'04.0"S, 29°59'21.0"E (Latitude:-1.251111; Longitude:29.989167).
History
Kabele Hospital was founded as a mission hospital of the church Missionary Society in 1921 by Leonard Sharp and Algernon Smith and their spouses as an expansion from the Mengo Hospital. The original mission hospital included a school and a leprosy hospital on Bwana Island on Lake Bunyonyi. The hospital also served as a base for Sharp and Smith to found a hospital in Rwanda as well, the Ruanda Mission.
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Kabale Hospital is a public hospital, funded by the Uganda Ministry of Health and general care in the hospital is free.
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