Table 1 Ugandan health unit levels, with population capacity of each health unit level and services offered from the Uganda Ministry of Health [26]
From: Exploring country-wide equitable government health care facility access in Uganda
Level | Population Capacity | Services Offered |
|---|---|---|
Health Center II | 5000 | “Preventative, promotive, and outpatient curative services, and emergency maternal deliveries |
Health Center III | 20,000 | All the above services. In addition, provides inpatient, maternal, and laboratory services |
Health Center IV | 100,000 | All the above services. In addition, provides emergency surgery, blood transfusion, laboratory services. Also, supervises levels 2 and 3. |
General Hospital | 500,000 | All the above services, but more comprehensive than HC 4. In addition, provides medicine, surgery, obstetrics, and gynecology, pediatrics, family medicine, and X-ray (plane and mobile) |
Regional Referral Hospital | 2,000,000 | All the above services. In addition, provides specialized services (Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, and Gynecology, Pediatrics, ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Anesthesia, Pathology, Psychiatry, Dentistry, and Community Medicine. Have specialists, train nurses, have a blood bank, do basic and applied research and provide engineering services to facilities in its health zone. |
National Referral Hospital | 10,000,000 | All the above services, but more comprehensive and advanced than regional hospital. For instance, national hospitals offer advanced diagnostic services such as MRI and CT scans; they have super-specialists, and train doctors, pharmacists, dental surgeons, and graduate nurses and carry out advanced research.” |