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Kisiizi Hospital
By contrast, the facilities in the
hospital seem luxurious, with electr The hospital has an outpatient department, surgical ward and operating theatre suite, a maternity department, a children’s ward, and medical and isolation wards. The wards are often full to overflowing, with patients on mattresses on the floor if there is nowhere else to put them. No-one is turned away. There is a resident general surgeon and other groups of specialist surgeons visit from time to time. More information about Kisiizi can be found at the Friends of Kisiizi website. |
Kisiizi
hospital is a 200 bed hospital run by the Church of Uganda. It is situated in a
remote area in SW Uganda, an hour’s drive away from the nearest tarmac road.
Although there are no large towns in the immediate vicinity, (the nearest is
Kabale, about 90 minutes drive away) the area is densely populated. The
inhabitants are mostly subsistence farmers with smallholdings where they grow
food for their families. Nearly everyone is desperately poor by UK standards.
Houses are basic mud huts with earthen floors. There is no glass in the windows.
Roofs are made of corrugated iron or banana thatch. Water has to be collected
from a river or stand pipe and carried back to the homes, as there is no running
water.
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and running tap water. There is a beautiful waterfall beside the hospital, which
is the reason for the hospital’s situation. Water from the falls runs through a
generator which provides the hospital with a source of hydroelectric power.