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Uganda: Naguru Health Clinic to Become Hospital
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New Vision (Kampala)
6 August 2008
Posted to the web 7 August 2008
Florence Nakaayi
Kampala
NAGURU Health Clinic in Kampala is to be upgraded into a district hospital. This was confirmed on Tuesday during a meeting of the mayor, Nasser Sebaggala, health ministry officials and a delegation from the Chinese government.
Construction is to be funded by the Chinese and work is expected to kick-off by April next year.
The clinic, currently graded as a health centre IV, is to be demolished by the end of the year and the hospital built on the five-acre piece of land on which the clinic now sits.
"We have alternative places like Kiswa Health Centre, Bukoto I or Kisugu, where the clinic would be shifted as construction goes on," said Dr. Misaki Mubiru, the city health services chief.
The clinic receives about 300 patients daily.
The Chinese team was led by Zhang Jian Yu of China Architecture Design and Research Group, accompanied by counsellor Zhang Aiming of the Chinese Embassy.
They had earlier toured the project site.
The commissioner for clinical services, Dr. Jacinto Amandua, said the 100-bed hospital would have a theatre, youth, HIV/AIDS and maternity centres.
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The Chinese government intends to build three more hospitals in Kampala, depending on the availability of land.
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