Holy Innocents Children's Hospital

Holy Innocents Children's Hospital is a pediatric general hospital in the Western Region of Uganda. Founded in 2009, it is the second entirely pediatric hospital in the country, the other being CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda, located in Mbale, in Eastern Uganda, which was founded in 2000.

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Location

HICH is located in the city of Mbarara, approximately west of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, the largest hospital in the Western Region of Uganda, and the nearest regional referral hospital.
This location is approximately, by road southwest of Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.

Overview

The hospital is a collaborative effort between many stakeholders, including the following:

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbarara
Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau
University of San Diego School of Nursing & Health Sciences
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Children's Hospital Oakland
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego
California State University, Northridge
Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
Private businesspeople and entrepreneurs
Donors and volunteers worldwide

Operation

Holy Innocents Children's Hospital is a member of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau. As of October 2020, its capacity was 55 beds. Annual outpatient visits were 20,468, with 3,922 annual admissions. Patient user fees accounted for 45.3 percent of the total hospital annual income.