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Mutoyi Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Mutoyi, Gitega Province, Burundi |
Coordinates | 3°13′08″S 29°58′37″E / 3.21899°S 29.97684°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in Burundi |
The Mutoyi Hospital (French: Hôpital de Mutoyi) is a hospital in Gitega Province, Burundi.
Mutoyi Hospital is a faith-based hospital in the city of Mutoyi, in the east of the Mutaho Health District. It is one of two hospitals in the district, the other being the Mutaho Hospital.[1] It is a private hospital serving a population of 100,155 as of 2014.[2] The Mutoyi Hospital belongs to the Archdiocese of Gitega, and is part of CED-Caritas Burundi. It is managed by Volontari Italiani per la Solidarietà ai Paesi Emergenti (VISPE).[3]
Mutoyi Hospital was founded in 1973 as the Mutoyi Health Center. In October 2003, the Ministry of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS recognized it as a First Reference Hospital.[4] In February 2017 Japan granted US$67,717 to the hospital to build a pre-delivery shelter for pregnant women.[3]
As of 2020 the hospital had 350 beds and more than 200 employees. It had operating rooms, consultation rooms and laboratories. On average there were 4,500 births there each year.[5]