Whereas most of you are acquainted to Uganda Heart Institute for heart surgeries, soon, your focus will be turned to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.

Sources inside the medical power house  indicate that the 93-year-old Institution has been earmarked to help in offloading of overwhelming numbers of patients awaiting heart surgeries at the Uganda Heart Institute.

This website understands that Cardiology experts from Uganda’s Heart Institute have been pitching camp at Mbarara Hospital to assess the capacity of the hospital to support heart surgical operations.

These were welcomed by Dr Deus Twesigye, the Hospital Senior Consultant General Surgeon and Halson Kagure, the Hospital Public Relations Officer who later ushered them to Dr Celestine Barigye the Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital Director.

According to Dr Deus, the team assessed various units in the hospital to ascertain their status.   

Dr Celestine Barigye described the move as significant adding that it will add on the list of existing specialized services .

Dr Barigye adds that when they start conducting heart surgeries it will reduce on the burden of patients in need of services at Uganda Heart Institute.

The Mbarara Referral Hospital boss also argues that it’s another way of decentralizing highly specialized services.