KIBOGORA HOSPITAL

Introduction

Kibogora Hospital is a rural hospital located in southwest Rwanda . It was established first as a dispensary run by missionary nurses until the early 1960's, when the first expatriate doctors arrived. By the end of the 1960's it was operating as a full hospital and by 1970 it had grown to 120 beds. 

Kibogora now has 260 beds, and is the district referral hospital for ten outlying health centres. It also has an affiliated school providing nursing and scientific training.

The Kibogora complex provides the only hospital service in a district of approximately 250,000 persons.

Services

The hospital provides surgical, general medical, paediatric and maternity services. There is an X ray department and the hospital is one of the few in Rwanda able to provide both ultra-sound and gastroscopic examinations. There are weekly eye clinics and the dental department is the only one in the district offering preventative treatment.

There are currently seven doctors working at the hospital with a staff of 150.

In 2007 the hospital admitted 6963 patients and an additional 13,078 outpatients were seen. 2152 surgeries were performed of which 427 were major.  The Obstetrics department delivered 1866 babies of which over 40% were complicated deliveries.

With the enhanced facilities provided in the new HIV/Aids building the level of service available to this goup of patients has been greatly improved. In 2007 there were 1640 patients on the HIV treatment program and 12253 people had received counselling.

During 2007 there were 215 seriously malnourished children under 5 years old admitted to the feeding program, this is an increase on the previous year and the indications are that this trend is likely to continue. In addition there were 225 malnourished children admitted suffering from Aids related illneses.