Table 1.
Hospital demographics
| Hospital site | Approximate total bed capacity | No of paediatric beds | No of children age 0–5 years admitted annually* | Paediatric physicians | Paediatric nurses |
| GRRH, Gulu | 397 | 32 | 5774 | 9 | 31 |
| JRRH, Jinja | 408 | 50 | 7559 | 8 | 17 |
| MRRH, Masaka | 330 | 45 | 4876 | 7 | 7 |
| MRRH, Mbarara | 600 | 79 | 2398 | 17† | 17 |
| HICH, Mbarara | 60 | 60 | 5623 | 5 | 21 |
| Kisiizi hospital, Rukungiri | 250 | 38 | 1326 | 5 | 11 |
| LRRH, Lira | 346 | 70 | 3428 | 4 | 20 |
*Average of total admissions aged 0–60 months for the 3 years: 2015, 2016 and 2017.
†Includes 9 Senior House Officers (masters of paediatric medicine students who attend to patients as part of their training requirement but are not employees of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital).
GRRH, Gulu Regional Referral Hospital; HICH, Holy Innocents Children’s Hospital; JRRH, Jinja Regional Referral Hospital; LRRH, Lira Regional Referral Hospital; MRRH-Masaka, Masaka Regional Referral Hospital; MRRH-Mbarara, Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.