Mulago Specialised Maternal and Neonatal Health Care Unit (SMNHUP) at Mulago Hill.

The Government of Uganda has commenced development of detailed design documentation for the construction of a Specialized Maternal & Neonatal Health Care Unit project (SMNHUP) in Mulago Hospital under the Ministry of Health (MOH) financed by the Islamic Development Bank and Arch Design Ltd was contracted to undertake the assignment.

The proposed new Specialized Maternal & Neonatal Health Care Unit facility will provide state of the art tertiary level health care to referred obstetrics and gynaecology patients from lower level health facilities.

The thematic areas for this facility will include: High risk antenatal, delivery and post natal services (maternal foetal medicine); Gynaecological Oncology; Urogynaecology especially VVFs; Assisted Reproductive Health Technologies and Family Planning Services.

The proposed construction of Specialized Maternal & Neonatal Health Care Unit project (SMNHUP) is intended to be approximately a 300 beds state of the art referral centre for obstetrics and gynaecology patients referred from lower level health facilities.

The thematic areas for this facility will include but will not be limited to:

1. High risk antenatal, delivery and post natal services (maternal foetal medicine)
2. Gynaecological Oncology
3. Urogynaecology
4. Assisted Reproductive Health Technologies and Family Planning Services

The beds are distributed as follows:

1. High risk maternity services: 110 beds including 20 beds delivery beds in the labour suite
2. Gynaecological oncology: 70 beds
3. Urogynaecology: 60 beds
4. Assisted reproductive Health Technologies and Family Planning: 20 beds
5. Private patients: 40 beds
6. cots for premature new borne infants: 60

Other requirements will include majorly:

1. 10 Operating Theatres,
2. Laboratory for: haematology, microbiology, biochemistry and endocrinology and fertility diagnostics
3. X-ray and imaging: heavy duty x-ray, 2 mobile x-rays, 10 ultrasound machines
4. Lecture rooms: 1 with 100 sitting capacity and video conferencing; 3 with 5o sitting capacity
5. Canteens: one for staff and the other for patients
6. Board room
7. Pharmacy
8. Stores
9. Laundry
10. Kitchen
11. Central sterilization
12. Offices: 10 for single occupancy and shared office space for 40
13. Self contained duty rooms: 6
14. Maintenance workshop
15. Mortuary
16. Records/ICT systems
17. Library both electronic and manual
18. Large triage area for sorting out the patients