Table 1.

Clinical diagnoses on the gastrointestinal and hepatology inpatient service of Mulago Hospital, September 2010 to January 2011 (N=482)

Rank Number of patients	Cause of hospitalization	Percentage	(%)
1	Decompensated	85	17.6
	cirrhosis
2	Dyspepsia	85	17.6
3	Liver cancer	65	13.5
4	Diarrhoea	63	13.1
5	Hepatitis	41	8.5
6	Schistosomiasis with	29	6.0
	portalhypertension and
	variceal bleeding
7	Peritonitis	23	4.8
8	Abdominal masses not	19	3.9
	otherwise specified
9	Gallbladder disease	13	2.7
10	Gastric cancer	12	2.5