Kadic Hospital

Hospital in Central Region, Uganda

Kadic Hospital
Kadic Health Services Limited

Geography
Location	Kira Road Bukoto Neighborhood Naguru Hill, Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Organisation
Care system	Private
Type	General
Services
Emergency department	II
Beds	30 (2014)^[1]
History
Opened	1991^[1]
Links
Website	www.kadichealth.org
Lists	Hospitals in Uganda

The erstwhile Kadic Hospital, also known as Kadic Medical Centre, was an urban, private, hospital in Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country. The hospital was taken over by Victoria Hospital Limited and renamed UMC Victoria Hospital in January 2017. Following the commissioning of the newly constructed state-of-art UMC Victoria Hospital across the road, the facility was decommissioned in January 2018 and is expected to be re-opened soon. UMC Victoria Hospital set-up a dedicated COVID centre inside the erstwhile Kadic Hospital to serve patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021.

Location

The hospital is located on Kira Road, in the Bukoto neighborhood, on Naguru Hill, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. This is about 4 kilometres (2 mi) east of Mulago National Referral Hospital.^[2] The coordinates of Kadic Hospital are: 0°20'59.0"N, 32°36'15.0"E (Latitude:0.349717; Longitude:32.604159).^[3]

Overview

In 1991, married couple Henry Kasozi and Sayuni Kasozi started the Kampala Diagnostic and Imaging Centre (KADIC), out of rented premises in Naakulabye, a middle and low income neighborhood in Kampala's Lubaga Division. Henry was about to retire as a professor of radiology at Makerere University School of Medicine, where he taught between 1974 and 1993.^[1]

Within two years, they outgrew their rented premises. They acquired land in Bukoto and built new premises that houses the main hospital. They maintain clinics at three other locations in the city, including in Naakulabye, where they started. As of 2014, the hospital employed over 130 people, owned four ambulances, and treated over 4,000 outpatients and inpatients every month, with a monthly salary payroll exceeding Sh100 million.^[1]

In 2016–17, the facility (KADIC Hospital - Bukoto) was purchased by Victoria Hospital Limited and renamed UMC Victoria Hospital.

Affiliated entities

Victoria Hospital Limited, in addition to the erstwhile KADIC Hospital, also operates:
- UMC Victoria Hospital - state-of-art newly constructed tertiary care hospital opposite erstwhile KADIC

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mwesigwa, Alon (12 August 2014). "Kasozi: How I Built A Shs5 Billion Hospital". The Observer (Uganda). Kampala. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
^ GFC (16 May 2016). "Distance between Kadic Health Foundation Limited, Kira Road, Kampala, Central Region, Uganda and Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Central Region, Uganda". Globefeed.com (GFC). Retrieved 16 May 2016.
^ Google (16 May 2016). "Location of Kadic Hospital" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 16 May 2016.