30/04/2025
We successfully held an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign at Makerere University Jinja Campus, empowering students with knowledge, free testing, and support services. Together, we fight stigma and promote healthy living!
Makerere University Hospital, is a private community hospital affiliated to Makerere University.
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Makerere Hill
Kampala
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Makerere University Hospital, Since 1972
The Hospital is managed by the Director in conjunction with the Hospital Administration and also assisted by the Senior Nursing Officer. The Hospital comprises of various units which render different services to the University Community. It has medical units which are available to staff, both senior and junior, and to students. It offers both curative and preventive services. The dental unit offers extraction, scaling, polishing and filling-in services for the teeth. There is also a new and modern X-ray unit which deals with all X-ray diagnosis. The Laboratory concerns itself with examining samples of blood, stool and Urine. The maternal Child-health and Family Planning Clinic deals with the immunization of children and students, dispenses vaccines and contraceptives. There is also a small dispensary which dispenses all essential drugs for treatment of any ailments. The University ambulance service is available 24 hours and so are the nurses, on the ward in case of emergencies. The Hospital has a 32 bed in-patient ward and admissions to the ward are exclusively for students only. However, the Hospital Administration is trying in every ways possible to improve on the services and aspects of the Hospital so as to provide wider and better services to the University Community. The Makerere University Council at its 139th meeting held on 11th April 2017 approved the transfer of management of the University Hospital to Makerere University College of Health Sciences effective 1st July 2017. The College Administration Board has put in place an Interim Board chaired by Prof. Moses Kamya; Dean of the School of Medicine to oversee the operationalization of the management of the Hospital. The Board has wide representation of the key stakeholders as well as a lawyer and a financial management expert.
