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| Location =97 Bugwere Road, [[Mbale]]
| Coordinates=1.074167N, 34.171667E
| Region = [[Mbale District]]
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| Country = {{flag|[[Uganda}}]]
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| HealthCare = Private
| Type = Neurosurgery
| Emergency = I
| Affiliation= [[West Virginia University School of Medicine]]
| Beds = 42<ref name="1R">{{cite web|newspaperdate=[[New1 February Vision]]2009 (Kampala)|
url=httphttps://www.newvision.co.ug/PAnew_vision/9news/341227784/670076cure-hospital-hope-children-disabilities |access-date=16 November 2018 |title=Cure Hospital: The Hope forFor Children With Disabilities|accessdate=23 December 2014| date=1 February 2009|last=Frederick Womakuyu|first=and Richard Wetaya Lunyolo}}</ref>
newspaper=[[New Vision]] |first=and Richard Wetaya Lunyolo |
last=Frederick Womakuyu |location=Kampala}}</ref>
| Founded = 2000
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'''CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda (CCHU)''' is a specialized children's [[neurosurgery]] hospital in [[Uganda]]. It is a private hospital, owned and operated by [[CURE International]]. The hospital is also a teaching center in [[neurosurgery|pediatric neurosurgery]] for [[Sub-Saharan Africa]].<ref name="CURE">{{cite web|date= | url=https://cure.org/uganda/ | title=CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda: About the Hospital | accessdate=23 December 2014 | publisher=CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda}}</ref>
==Location==
The hospital is located in the city of [[Mbale]], in [[Mbale District]], in Uganda's [[Eastern Region, Uganda|Uganda's Eastern Region]]. This location is approximately {{convert|221225|km|mi0}}, by road, northeast of [[Kampala]], Uganda's [[capital city|capital]], and largest city.<ref>{{citegoogle webmaps|title=Road Distance Between Kampala And Mbale With Map|accessdate=23 December 2014|date=| url=http://distancecalculator.globefeed.com/Uganda_Distance_Result.asp?fromplace=Kampala%20()&toplace=Mbale%20(Mbale)&fromlat=0.3155556&tolat=1.0644444&fromlng=32.5655556&tolng=34.1794444|publisher=Globefeed.com}}</ref> The coordinates of CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda are:1°04'27.0"N, 34°10'18.0"E (Latitude:1.074167; Longitude:34.171667).<ref>{{cite web|title=Location of CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda At Google Maps|accessdate=23 December 2014|date=|first=.|last=Google|publisher=[[Google|Google Maps]]|
url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kampala/Mbale/@0.7134625,32.2587448,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x177dbc0f9d74b39b:0x4538903dd96b6fec!2m2!1d32.5825197!2d0.3475964!1m5!1m1!1s0x1778b6126bdea17b:0xb84df43e61b7b568!2m2!1d34.1810057!2d1.0784436!3e0 |title=Road Distance Between Kampala, Uganda And Mbale, Uganda With Map |access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> The coordinates of the hospital are 1°04'27.0"N, 34°10'18.0"E (Latitude:1.074167; Longitude:34.171667).<ref>{{google maps |
url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/1%C2%B004'27.0%22N+34%C2%B010'18.0%22E/@1.0743935,34.1703854,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 |title=Location of CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda |access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref>
==Overview==
The CURE Children's Hospital in UgandaCCHU is a specialized neurosurgery children's hospital owned and administered by [[CURE International]]. The hospital is privately owned and charges a fee for its services. However, CCHU serves children with physical disabilities regardless of their ethnic background, religious affiliation, or ability to pay. Opened in 2000, the hospital employs 6 doctors, and 33 nurses and serves inmore excess ofthan 7,000 patientsoutpatients annually, performing almostmore than 1,000 operations everyper year. The children's neurosurgical diseases treated at the hospital include: 1. [[Hydrocephalus]] 2. [[Neural tube defects]] 3. [[Spina bifida]] 4. [[Epilepsy]] and 5. [[Brain tumor]]s<ref name="CURE"/>
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* [[Hydrocephalus]]
* [[Neural tube defects]]
* [[Spina bifida]]
* [[Epilepsy]]
* [[Brain tumor]]s.
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CCHU operates a busy outpatient clinic and owns a mobile van that transports sick children from remote areas to the hospital for care and returns them to their home areas after they have been treated.<ref name="CURE"/>
==Training programs==
===Program for advanced training in hydrocephalus===
CCHU trains resident doctors in Endoscopicendoscopic Thirdthird Ventriculostomyventriculostomy (ETV), a procedure for the treatment of [[hydrocephalus]], a condition characterized by the accumulation of fluid around the brain. CCHU offers a program to provide training and equipment to establish three new "ETV Centers" each year. iPATH Fellows train at CCHU for three months and, upon completion of their training, establishesestablish a center for the surgical treatment of hydrocephalus in their own country. CCHU provides approximately US$30,000 worth of equipment for each new center. Currently, CCHU has had iPATH applicants from [[Ghana]], [[Zambia]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Rwanda]], [[Nepal]], [[Senegal]], [[Honduras]], and [[Madagascar]]. The first iPATH Fellow to graduate from the program practices in western [[Tanzania]], in a CCHU-aided pediatric neurosurgery center.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ifglobal.org/en/what-we-do/37-temp-news/75-ipath | title=The International Program to Advance the Treatment of Hydrocephalus (iPATH) | accessdate=24 December 2014 | publisher=International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224172846/http://www.ifglobal.org/en/what-we-do/37-temp-news/75-ipath | archive-date=24 December 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://cure.org/hydrocephalus | title=CURE Hydrocephalus Surgeon Fellowship Program And Strategy | accessdate=24 December 2014 | publisher=[[CURE International]]}}</ref>
url=http://www.ifglobal.org/en/what-we-do/37-temp-news/75-ipath|
title=The International Program to Advance the Treatment of Hydrocephalus (iPATH)|date=|accessdate=24 December 2014|
publisher=International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date= | url=https://cure.org/hydrocephalus/|title=CURE Hydrocephalus Surgeon Fellowship Program And Strategy|accessdate=24 December 2014| publisher=[[CURE International]]}}</ref>
===Comprehensive epilepsy program of Uganda and East Africa===
In collaboration with the [[West Virginia University|West Virginia University School of Medicine]], CCHU established in 2005 a comprehensive epilepsy program for Uganda and Eastern Africa. The program aims to: (a) Identify, evaluate and treat Ugandans with epilepsy. (b) Train African physicians in the evaluation and treatment of epilepsy (c) Conduct research on the causes of epilepsy in Africa and best practices for treatment.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Boling|first1=Warren|last2=Palade|first2=Adriana|last3=Wabulya|first3=Angela|last4=Longoni|first4=Nicoletta|last5=Warf|first5=Benjamin|last6=Nestor|first6=Scott|last7=Alpitsis|first7=Rubina|last8=Bittar|first8=Richard|last9=Howard|first9=Charles|last10=Andermann|first10=Frederick|title=Surgery for pharmacoresistant epilepsy in the developing world: A pilot study|journal=Epilepsia|date=May 2009|volume=50|issue=5|pages=1256–1261|doi=10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01984.X|pmid=19175392 |doi-access=}}</ref>
In collaboration with the [[West Virginia University|West Virginia University School of Medicine]], CCHU established a comprehensive [[epilepsy]] program for [[Uganda]] and [[Eastern Africa]]. Started in 2005, the program aims to:
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# Identify, evaluate and treat Ugandans with epilepsy,
Starting in 2005, two neurosurgeons, Dr.[[Neurosurgery|Neurosurgeons]] [[Benjamin Warf]] and Dr. Warren Boling of [[West Virginia University]] , performed the first three epilepsy surgeries ever done in the region. The program in ongoing and is being evaluated for further expansion.<ref name="Int" /> {{cite web|▼# Train African physicians in the evaluation and treatment of epilepsy, and
# Conduct research on the causes of epilepsy in Africa and best practices for treatment.
▲Starting in 2005, two neurosurgeons, Dr. [[Benjamin Warf]] and Dr. Warren Boling of [[West Virginia University]], performed the first three epilepsy surgeries ever done in the region. The program in ongoing and is being evaluated for further expansion.<ref>{{cite web|
url=http://globalonc.org/an-interview-with-dr-benjamin-warf-treatment-of-pediatric-brain-tumors-in-sub-saharan-africa/|
title=An Interview With Dr. Benjamin Warf – Treatment of Pediatric Brain Tumors In Sub-Saharan Africa|accessdate=24 December 2014|
date=1 September 2014|publisher=Globalonc.org|first=Aryeh J.| last=Price}}</ref>
===Pediatric neurosurgical fellowship===
With the encouragement and support of international neurosurgical societies, CCHU has established a fellowship program for pediatric neurosurgeons. It is the only such program in Sub-Saharan Africa. Two neurosurgeons per year will study and work at CCHU, to focus their skills on children and to concentrate on a range of afflictions of the brain and central nervous system.<ref name="Int">{{cite web |url=http://globalonc.org/an-interview-with-dr-benjamin-warf-treatment-of-pediatric-brain-tumors-in-sub-saharan-africa/ |title=An Interview With Dr. Benjamin Warf - Treatment of Pediatric Brain Tumors In Sub-Saharan Africa |author=Aryeh J. Price |publisher=Globalonc.org |accessdate=19 September 2017 |date=1 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304161859/http://globalonc.org/an-interview-with-dr-benjamin-warf-treatment-of-pediatric-brain-tumors-in-sub-saharan-africa/ |archive-date=4 March 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| accessdate=19 September 2017 | url=https://cureinternational.ca/uganda/ |title=CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda - CURE Hydrocephalus Surgeon Fellowship Program in Uganda | publisher=CURE International Canada (CUREIC) | author=CUREIC | date=2015}}</ref>
With the encouragement and support of international neurosurgical societies, CCHU has established a Fellowship Program for pediatric neurosurgeons. It is the only such program in [[Sub-Saharan Africa]]. Two neurosurgeons per year will study and work at CCHU, to focus their skills on children and to concentrate on a range of afflictions of the brain and central nervous system.
==See also==
*[[Hospitals in Uganda]]
*[[Entebbe Children's Surgical Hospital]]
*[[CURE International]]
*[[Neurosurgery]]
==References==
* [http://allafrica.com/stories/200902020054.html Cure Children's Hospital of Uganda Opened in 2000]
* [http://allafrica.com/stories/200809250113.html CCHU Only Specialized Children's Neurosurgery Hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa]
* [https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1177956/cure-mountain A cure at the mountain top] As at 30 October 2008.
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