The Musema District Hospital (French: Hôpital de District de Musema) is a hospital in Kayanza Province, Burundi.

Musema Hospital
Musema Hospital is located in Burundi
Musema Hospital
Geography
LocationMusema, Kayanza Province, Burundi
Coordinates3°04′35″S 29°40′19″E / 3.07638°S 29.67203°E / -3.07638; 29.67203
Organisation
Care systemPublic
Links
ListsHospitals in Burundi

Location

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The Musema Hospital is in the north of Musema, just east of the RP51 highway.[1]

The hospital is the district hospital for the Musema Health District, which serves the south of Kayanza Province.[2] It is a public hospital serving a population of 207,064 as of 2014.[3] The only other hospitals in the province are the Gahombo Hospital, serving the Gahombo Health District and the Kayanza Hospital serving the Kayanza Health District.[2]

Events

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As of 2014 Musema Hospital had only three doctors.[4] An ambulance was provided to the hospital in 2015.[5] In 2015 the hospital was rated at 45% on administrative and logistic quality. This compared to 72% for the Bururi Hospital and 27% for the Bubanza Hospital.[6]

In September 2022 the medical director of the hospital and two other employees were jailed on charges of embezzlement of hospital funds.[7]

References

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Sources

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  • Bregmans Consulting & Research (August 2016), Rapport de contre verification des donnees quantitatives et qualitatives pour financement base sur la performance: second semestre 2015 (PDF) (in French), Ministere De La Sante Publique Et De La Lutte Contre Le Sida, retrieved 2024-08-07
  • Carte Sanitaire du Burundi (PDF), Burundi Ministry of Public Health, 2016, retrieved 2024-06-21
  • "Débarrassé des détourneurs des deniers publics, l'hôpital de Musema respire", Radio Inzamba (in French), 15 September 2022, retrieved 2024-08-07
  • Etat des lieux de la gouvernance dans la province de Kayanza au cours de l’année 2014 (PDF) (in French), Observatoire de l’Action Gouvernementale, October 2014, retrieved 2024-08-07
  • Financement base sur la performance HD Musema (in French), Ministere de la Sante Publique et de la Lutte Contre le Sida, retrieved 2024-08-07
  • "Kayanza – 6.630 Cartes d'Assistance Médicale distribuées aux vulnérables en 2015", AGnews (in French), 27 January 2016, retrieved 2024-08-07
  • "Way: Hôpital Musema (786248069)", OpenStreetMap, retrieved 2024-08-07