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Urban Authorities Hus
155
20,216
10,083 10,133 50%
55,443
31,951 23,492 58%
Human Resources for Health Audit report and Bi-annual Report for April 2012
2. Numbers of Health Centers and Ownership
As earlier pointed out, health units in Uganda are classified into hospitals, Health Centers IV, III and II. Their number has
been increasing in recent years. Hospitals in Uganda are categorized as Referral, Regional and General Hospitals and
were 143 in number in 2011.
Ownership:
Of the 143 hospitals, 2 are referral hospitals and 12 are Regional hospitals; all government owned.
46% of the hospitals in the country are Government owned while 43% are Private Not- For- Profit (PNFP) units, and only
11 percent are Private For Profit (PFP).
The table below presents information on the health centers by ownership as of 2011.
Ownership of Health Facilities in the Country
Year
200
6
Indicator
GOV PNF PRIVA TOTA GOV
T
P
TE
L
T
Hospitals
59
46
8
113
65
Health centre 148
IV
Health centre 762
III
Health centre 1332
II
Total
201
0
PNF PRIVA
P
TE
57
9
TOTA
L
131
GOV
T
66
PNFP PRIVAT
E
61
16
TOTAL
178
166
16
8
190
1,11
6
860
278
40
1,178
12
1
161
165
12
186
7
955
847
243
1
26
2011
143
415
261
2008
1,578 489
958
1,58
3,025 8
516
1,366
3,470
2,301 659
277
3237
2,655 801
994
4,450 2,68
0
871
1,430
4,981
Source: MOH (HMIS) annual report 2011
Status of the health facilities by level and ownership, 2012.
OWNERSHIP
LEVEL OF FACILITY
HOSPITAL
HEALTH CENTRE IV
HEALTH CENTRE III
HEALTH CENTRE II
TOTAL
HMIS (2013)
GOVERNMENT
64
170
937
1696
2867
PNFP
65
15
272
522
874
PRIVATE
23
8
70
1387
1488
TOTAL
152
193
1279
3605
5229
3. Distance to Health Facilities/Health Providers
According to the Uganda National Household Survey 2009/2010 Government health units and traditional birth
attendants were reported as the nearest health facility/providers to the communities with a distance of 5 and 3 Kms
respectively.
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