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The University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) is a 519 bed-teaching hospital located in Kigali City, Rwanda. Founded in 1918 by Belgian colonialists, [1] [2] [3] CHUK is the first and the biggest healthcare institution in Rwanda. [4] CHUK has played a role in rebuilding Rwanda's healthcare after the genocide against Tutsi of 1994. [4]
Health insurance became mandatory for all individuals in 2008; [5] in 2010 over 90% of the population was covered. [6] In 2012, only about 4% were uninsured. [1]President Kagame made healthcare one of the priorities for the Vision 2020 development programme, [7] boosting spending on health care to 6.5% of the country's gross domestic product in 2013, [8] compared with 1.9% in 1996. [9]
The construction of the 150-bed hospital begun in December 2008 and it was opened on 24 January 2011. The hospital was originally a health center, prior to 2008. Commissioning of the completed hospital was performed by Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda. [5] Construction was completed one year earlier than scheduled.
According to the district monograph (administrative data), the district has 14 health centers and two hospitals including (one public and one private hospital). This is insufficient when we consider the distance covered by the population from certain Cells of district like Ntongwe and Mwendo for the health services.
But in recent years Rwanda has seen improvement on a number of key health indicators. Between 2005 and 2013, life expectancy increased from 55.2 to 64.0, [ 4 ] under-5 mortality decreased from 106.4 to 52.0 per 1,000 live births, [ 5 ] and incidence of tuberculosis has dropped from 101 to 69 per 100,000 people. [ 6 ]
The Ministry of Health (Kinyarwanda: Minisiteri y'Ubuzima, [1] French: Ministère de la Santé [2]) is a government ministry of Rwanda, headquartered in Kigali. [3] As of 4 October 2024, Dr Sabin Nsanzimana is the minister who was appointed as the new Minister of Health replacing Dr. Ngamije Daniel.