Résumé 2022:
The Kitutu-Nyamibungu Referral Hospital is a CELPA missionary-based project which aims to transfer the quality of care to the rural community with the vision of becoming the leader of quality of care and research in rural health zones. The hospital had 203098 (upgraded population estimate) inhabitants in its catchment area.
The most common diseases are malaria, pneumonia and emerging non communicable diseases as renal and hearth diseases, diabetes, teen delivery complicated labor and poor abandoned elderly as well as mal nourished children. Throughout the centenary year (2022) we noted the sustained trend of increased patient accessibility, maintained bed occupancy rate beyond the threshold, increased the total income, sustained good collaboration with in and outside partners.
We celebrated the centenary together with the CELPA local church and receive the visiting team from the Norwegian mother church (NPM leadership). There was evidenced that equipment investment contributed to boost the local incomes despite its insufficiency to cover solely the hospital total expenses.
The Hospital Management team was acknowledged by the National Church leadership to supervise the quality of care in Shabunda and Mwenga territory within CELPA. This increased our catchment area to oven a million inhabitant of Urega land.
