Table 1.
Rwandan government hospital profile
| n | Mean distance to furthest health centre (km) | Population served | Hospital beds | Operating rooms | Operating rooms per 100 000 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District hospitals | 41 | 44 | 9710 108* | 6534 | 101 | 1·04 |
| Kigali City | 4 | 27 | 882 011 | 640 | 15 | 1·70 |
| Northern Province | 6 | 54 | 1 852 517 | 1129 | 16 | 0·86 |
| Southern Province | 10 | 39 | 2 355 891 | 1576 | 25 | 1·06 |
| Eastern Province | 9 | 48 | 2 168 518 | 1250 | 17 | 0·78 |
| Western Province | 12 | 50 | 2 451 171 | 1939 | 28 | 1·14 |
| Referral hospitals | 10 117 029† | 1063 | 23 | 0·22 | ||
| CHUK (Kigali City) | 6238 736‡ | 513 | 14 | 0·22 | ||
| KFH (Kigali City) | 10 117 029† | 130 | 5 | 0·04 | ||
| CHUB (Southern Province) | 3 471 372‡ | 420 | 4 | 0·11 | ||
| National total | 10 117 029† | 7597 | 124 | 1·22 |
District hospital population estimates were derived from catchment populations self-reported by the district hospitals, based on the most recent population statistics at their Ministry of Health (MOH)-appointed referring health centres.
Population projection for 2009 from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda was used for whole-country estimates12.
Estimates were made by summing the catchment area populations of the district hospitals that referred to each university hospital, as delineated by the MOH. However, there was a degree of cross-referencing, depending on which hospital offered a particular service, for example neurosurgery at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Kigali (CHUK) or dialysis at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Butare (CHUB). KFH, King Faisal Hospital.