Since 2005, the clinic has been operating in rented premises composed of four small (20’ x 40’) buildings originally designed as residences that do not suit the needs of a hospital or even a full-scale clinic. Power is intermittent, space insufficient for every purpose, and several rooms have packed-dirt floors. This inadequate facility restricts their services and their status to a Level 4 facility, as designated by the Ministry of Health in Uganda.

BMCF’s future depends on having a well-planned medical center of its own. With $500,000 in grants secured, BMCF plans to build a Level 5 status efficient, modern hospital with separate wards for maternity, neonatal, operating theatres, an emergency room, outpatient department

BMCF is working with MASS Design, architects for a recently completed hospital in Butaro, Rwanda. Funded by Boston-based Partners in Health (PIH) and the Rwandan Government, the Butaro Hospital is an internationally acclaimed teaching hospital offering high quality medical care to a large, impoverished community.

For more information on the progress and plans for the Bishop Masereka Hospital, please contact U.S. BMCF liaison, Leslie Nicholson: [email address]