About Us
Our Lady of Consolation Kisubi is Private Not for Profit (PNFP) Hospital owned by Kampala Archdiocese. It is found in Wakiso District, Katabi Sub-county – Kisubi parish. – Nkima Road It is located 23 km along Kampala-Entebbe highway, 1.5km off the main road branching off at Kawuku trading centre. It is the main referral facility for Busiro South HSD, also serving areas like Entebbe, Kyadondo South and Busiro East and hence the headquarters for the Health Sub District.
The Hospital has a bed capacity of 100.It is committed to a holistic, integrated and sustainable action in health. This includes treatment, prevention, health promotion and staff development. We also offer community health services like: home visiting, health education, school health, malaria prevention and control. The hospital aims to promote access to healthcare for the less privileged and vulnerable social groups like women, children, the financially destitute, and the chronically ill.
Kisubi Hospital has a Management Team, which comprises of:The Medical Superintendent who reports to the Board of Governors The Hospital Administrator who reports to the Board of Governors. The Nursing Director who reports to the Board of Governors. The In-charge of Health Sub District who reports to the Medical Superintendent. Other Staffs: The Accountant and Assistant accountant both report to the Administrator. The Assistant Nursing Director who reports to the Nursing Director The Administrative Assistant who reports to the Hospital Administrator. Five cashiers who report to the Accountant. The Secretary who reports to the Administrator. Members of the Hospital management team
The Hospital Board of Governors is composed of 17 members with one representative of the local community. The Board of Governors is the supreme policymaking, governing and controlling organ for the internal and external actions of the Hospital. It is appointed by the Archbishop of Kampala Archdiocese who through the Diocesan Health Board and Diocesan Health Office is the overall policy making and coordinating body for the Hospital. The following are the team of people responsible for Kisubi Hospital governance:
The ideology dictates every aspect of the clinical governance, patient care and the work culture. The great heights we have achieved in delivering medical care with exceptional quality have been a result of guiding principles:
The ideology dictates every aspect of the clinical governance, patient care and the work culture. The great heights we have achieved in delivering medical care with exceptional quality have been a result of guiding principles:
Kisubi hospital is committed and implements the policies of the Ministry of Health and the relevant international health policies when these are not contradictory to the RCC ethical codes. We aim at working closely with Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB). The hospital adapts the policies to the situation of the population for which it is responsible.
The hospital actively pursues access to all services for the entire population, of its established area of responsibility, especially for the less privileged and vulnerable.
- Seeking complementarity and avoiding duplication of services
- The Hospital recognizes its role among other health providers and the need to assure an effective division of responsibilities.
- Holistic approach in delivery of services
- The hospital endeavors to take the psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of the person into account in all its services.
- Consolidation of core areas of competence and value added
- Kisubi Hospital focuses on improving the quality of the existing service lines where the Hospital has demonstrated competence and the demand for such services is clear.
- Cautious expansion in areas of specialization, training and research
- The Hospital considers expansion of current services and activities when local/ national demand warrant and where additional resources can be assured.
Who we Are
Since the patient is at the centre of all activities of Kisubi Hospital, a basic attitude of respect for the human dignity is the guidance for all and no distinctions of ethnic origin, social status; religious or political affiliation is made. Kisubi Hospital is becoming a multi-specialty hospital with special clinics run by professionals i.e. pediatric clinic, Diabetic/Hypertension Clinic, Obstetrics and Gynecology clinic, Dental clinic, Skin Clinic, HIV/AIDS clinic, Orthopaedic/Physiotherapy clinic.
Our effort to provide quality health care with compassion has rewarded us with the honor of being the top PNFP Hospital in Wakiso District. With the service-oriented Healthcare delivery model, Kisubi Hospital is geared to provide cost effective and user friendly medication. Justice, universality and equality marks the work of all the officers and staff members of Kisubi hospital. Their work is done in a professional way and in a spirit of total dedication and transparency in accordance with the catholic ethical code. Human life being sacred, the basic attitude of all personnel is healing of the person with total respect for life.
The establishment of a Health Center at Kisubi was decided in 1904 by the General Council of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa with a view of helping those who were suffering from “Sleeping sickness” (the “sleepers” as they were then called). As early as 1903, the white Fathers had set up a health Care unit at Kisubi, soon the number of “Mmongoota” patients was rapidly increasing that a dispensary (Hospital) was needed. Bishop Henry Streicher, the then Apostolic Vicar of the Uganda Vicariate, decided to send a team of sisters to Kisubi to combat the plaque. On 29th December 1905, five missionary Sisters of Our lady of Africa led by Mother Honorat as their superior arrived in Kisubi at noon, when the Angelus bell was ringing. The work of starting a health care unit was immediately embarked on and with the assistance of local people; a few huts were built in which patients with sleeping sickness were nursed.
After World War II, the hospital really started developing; in 1950 a new 30-bed maternity ward was built. The year 1957 saw the appointment of the first resident doctor at the hospital by the name of Sr.Dr. Myriem (a white sister) who had specialized in treating children. It is worth nothing that all the buildings established at Kisubi Hospital were financed with aid from the Mother-house of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa While other instruments and Hospital equipment for surgery were donated by charitable Institutions and organizations like Menisa, Misereor, the Holy childhood, the Belgium and Dutch Embassies, the Canadian High Commission.
As the time of Missionaries, including the White Sisters, coming to Uganda dwindled it was felt that time had come to hand over the Hospital to the indigenous Religious sisters. From 1986 onwards, definite and appropriate steps were taken in preparation for a smooth and effective hand- over of Kisubi Hospital. And on 23rd February 1988 the management of Kisubi hospital was effectively passed on to the sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Reparatrix. Gradually, the Hospital developed and by 1915 two-roomed small houses were built as a Hospital. Four years later, three more wards were established. In 1925 when the Government realized a very high infantile mortality especially at birth, it started training a scheme for midwives at a greater rate and contributed generously towards the construction of a 15-bed maternity ward at Kisubi Hospital.