Kirundo Hospital
hospital in Kirundo Province, Burundi
The Kirundo Hospital (French: Hôpital de Kirundo) is a hospital in Kirundo Province, Burundi.
Location
Kirundo Hospital is a hospital in the city of Kirundo, in the south of the Kirundo Health District.
It is the only hospital in the district.
It is one of two hospitals serving the four health districts of Kirundo Province, the other being Mukenke Hospital.
It is a public district hospital serving a population of 41,682 as of 2014.
Events
A maternity ward was built on the hospital grounds between September 2007 and June 2008, funded by SOS Enfants.
It gave the hospital greater capacity to serve women who chose to give birth in a hospital environment.
In January 2008 the Government of Burundi and the Kingdom of Belgium agreed to create the Kirundo Health Province Development Support Project.
The project began in October 2008.
Plans for Kirundo Hospital included construction of 3 blocks of external latrines (2 pits), construction of an emergency block, construction of a patient isolation block (4 rooms with 3 beds, care & services area), transformation of the operating room and construction of a miscellaneous material warehouse.
“Kirundo Hospital” enters the record as hospital in Kirundo Province, Burundi. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kirundo, Hospital and hospital can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q128218096. Authority coordinates are -2.591, 30.087. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2007 and 2008.
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