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Bwera General Hospital, also Bwera Hospital, is a hospital in the Western Region of Uganda.[1]

Location

The hospital is located in the town of Bwera, in Kasese District, near the international border with DR Congo, approximately Шаблон:Convert southwest of Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital.[2] This is about Шаблон:Convert northwest of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.[3] The coordinates of Bwera General Hospital are: 0°02'02.0"N, 29°46'01.0"E (Latitude:0.033899; Longitude:29.766934).[4]

Overview

Bwera General Hospital is a public hospital owned by the Uganda Ministry of Health. It serves the surrounding sub-counties in Kasese District, and patients from neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the only government-owned hospital in Kasese District, as of May 2016.[5] The hospital's bed capacity is 100, although many times it admits up to 300.[6]

Like most government hospitals in the country,[7] Bwera General Hospital faces many challenges including non-functioning equipment,[8] under-staffing, poor funding, over-worked staff[1] and slow payment of staff.[9]

Ebola

The hospital has an Ebola treatment unit which treated patients in June 2019 during the 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic affecting neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.[10]

See also

References

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External links

Шаблон:Authority control Шаблон:Kasese District