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Overview

The Rwamagana Level II Teaching Hospital is a public Hospital located in Eastern Province, Rwamagana District, 60 km from Kigali. It was founded in 1949 as a dispensary for people who worked in mines. Since 1952 it became a public district hospital. It has the capacity of 288 beds and offers a variety of outpatient, inpatient services,mentorship and oversight of health centers.

Rwamagana Level II Teaching Hospital has 16 Health centers, 1 Dispensary of Nsinda Prison, 4 private clinics, and Rwamagana School of Nursing and Midwives (RSNM). Rwamagana Level Two Teaching Hospital has variable number of employees including Physicians (General practitioners and Specialists), Nurses and Midwives (A0, A1 and A2), Allied health professionals, Administrative professionals, and support staff, and Other technicians. It has a catchment area of 531,131.

Phone:
+250783287108

Email:
rwamagana.hospital@moh.gov.rw

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Background

Since May 14th, 2014, Rwamagana Level II Teaching Hospital was upgraded to Provincial referral Hospital for all Eastern Province of Rwanda, a statement approved by the Cabinet meeting. Rwamagana Level II Teaching Hospital offers specialized curative and preventive healthcare in different specialities of Ophthalmology, Surgery, Paediatrics, Gyneco-obstetrics, Mental Health, Maternal and Neonatology, Hemodialysis, Stomatology, Physiotelapy, Antiretrovirals (ARVs), Nutrition and Internal Medicine. It is a health open research field, and it offers evidence-based clerkship teaching of multidisciplinary health-related fields, including medical and post-graduate trainees, specialized, general, hospital nursing, midwives, lab technicians, and other paramedics trainees.

 

Mission

“The mission of Rwamagana Level Two Teaching Hospital is to provide quality health care services to our population, ensure technical supervision of health facilities in our catchment area, promote preventive health services, contribute to health profession development and conduct operational research to inform best practice”.

Vision

“Rwamagana Level II Teaching Hospital is committed to be leaders in provision of high-quality and safe health care services to meet the health care needs of our population, build on the foundation of knowledge, research, and our core values in collaboration with our stakeholders in accordance with established norms and standards”.

 

Core Values

  • Integrity - We act openly and truthfully with high standards of ethics.
  • Patient Centered Care- We put patient at the center of all planning and service provision.
  • Quality and safety: we commit ourselves to provide high quality and safe services in compliance with norms and standard
  • Excellence - Medical care service based on professionalism and evidence based practice.

Goals

  • To provide affordable, cost-effective, and efficient medical and surgical health care services to the patients.
  • Provide the highest level of quality health care based on established standards and evidence-based medicine.
  • To be the primary peripheral center of excellence in clinical skills development and operational research activities.
  • To provide sounding technical and formative supervision to lower-level health facilities.
  • To create an environment that includes patients in decision-making regarding their holistic medical care.
  • To create a safe and a good working environment for the staff.

Guiding Principles and Philosophies of Care

  • Hospital health care must create and maintain a social and physical environment that is as welcoming, unthreatening, and supportive as possible.
  • Medical Care should be patient-centered.
  • Trained staff and skilled personnel are necessary for quality patient care.
  • Continuous learning, evaluation, and research are means of improving health care.
  • Continuous patient health education will promote behavior change and treatment compliance to produce long term results.
  • Patients are to be involved in decision-making regarding their individual medical problems and treatment.
  • Patients are a part of a family unit; therefore, families will be involved in the health care process.
  • Quality principles are the underlying foundation of our health care system.

Director General

Dr. Placide NSHIZIRUNGU

Director General 

Since April 2023, Dr. Placide NSHIZIRUNGU has been serving as the Director General of Rwamagana Level II Teaching Hospital, leading the institution in its efforts to provide quality healthcare and strengthen health service delivery.

Directors of Units

Director of Administration and Finance Mr. BERINTWARI Hakim

Mr. BERINTWARI Hakim

Director of Administration and Finance 

 

Director of Nursing and Midwifery Mrs. Beatrice Gerald

Mrs. Beatrice Gerald

Director of Nursing and Midwifery

 

Mr. TWAGIRAYEZU Emmanuel

Director of Allied Health Services

Acting Director of Medical Services Dr. USENGIMANA Daniel

Dr. USENGIMANA Daniel

Ag. Director of Medical Services 

Director of Quality Assurance Management Mr. BIZIMANA Aaron

Mr. BIZIMANA Aaron

Director of Quality Assurance Management