MulagoHospital is a National Referral, and
Teaching Hospital with a bed capacity of 1500 beds. It provides specialist
services in Surgery, Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, Oncology, Radiology with computerised Tomography (CT scan),
Intensive Care , Renal Dialysis, Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Orthopaedics
including limb fitting, Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), Dermatology,
Genital/Urinary (urology) medicine, Neurosurgery, Cardiology and Cardiothoracic
surgery and Accident and Emergency among others. Founded in 1913, MulagoHospitalsuffered a phase of decline posed by the Socio-Economic effects that resulted
from the national political upheavals of the 1970s and 1980s. Since mid 1980s,
Mulago has undergone a series of rahabilitation works, development of the Human
Resource, procurement of equipment in the numerous service centres including
the remodelling of Theatre Suite, installation of ICT, furniture and other
medical systems aimed at improving service delivery. A Tele-Medicine Centre at Lower Mulago was recently installed through a Pan-
African collaboration between the Indian Government and Government of Uganda.
This facility has enhanced consultation support between MulagoHospital specialists and theircounterparts in India’s
high level health care Institutions. This eases the quality of patient care and
enhances training of Health workers. MulagoHospital offers
state-of-art Private Patients as well as General low cost and free Services
including emergency, outpatient and inpatient services.