History
In 1988 Dr. Ian Clarke, a General practitioner from Bangor in Northern Ireland, traveled to Uganda with his young family with the intention of starting a community based health care program. Initial work was done in partnership with the Kasana Orphanage.
Upon the death of an expatriate visitor to the area, Barbara Kelly, a memorial fund established in her name which raised an initial £25,000. That initial donation enabled construction to start on the first permanent building. Two years later, and through continued donations, the Barbara Kelly Memorial Hospital was completed.
Kiwoko Hospital, as it was later renamed, was formally opened in September 1991 by the then Vice President of Uganda, the late Samson Kisekka. In 1997, the hospital established a partnership with The ISIS Foundation. In November 2001 the hospital celebrated its tenth anniversary, and boasted over 220 beds, a laboratory, a laboratory assistant training school, a nurse training school, and an active community based health care programme.
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