Health and Social Welfare

The duties and Responsibilities of Department are:

Reliable Health Services is provided to all residents in Kibondo District Council
To increase the number of Health staff
To build more Health infrastructure
To increase the number of working facilities
To rehabilitate buildings and existing working facilities.
To increase the number transport facilities.
To ensure availability of electricity in Health centers and dispensaries.

6.3.1. Health facilities statistics

The District has only 1 Hospital, 3 Health Centers owned by government and 1owned Refugee camp Nduta and 38 Dispensaries owned by governmental,1 dispensary owned by Parastatal and 1 dispensary owned by Faith based Organization

as displayed in the chart below.:

Table 16: Health facilities statistics

Type of heath facilities	Amount by type of ownership
	Government	FBO	Private	Parastatals	Total
Hospital	1	0	0	0	1
Health centre	3	0	1	0	4
Dispensary	38	1	0	1	40
Total	42	1	0	1	45

Source: Source: DMO. Kibondo 2016

The status of these health facilities is as summarized by the table below:

Table 18: The status of health facilities

	PHYSICAL STATE
Facilities		No. of existing health facilities	Good condition	No. Need Major Repair/replacement	No. need Minor Repair
Hospitals		1	1	0	1
Health Centre		3	1	1	1
Dispensaries		38	7	3	29
Total Facilities		42	9	4	31

Source: Source: DMO. Kibondo 2016

6.3.2. Number of beds in the hospital, health centers and dispensaries owned by the government.

Table 17: Beds Source: Source: DMO. Kibondo 2016

Health facilities	REQUIRED				AVAILABLE				SHORTAGE
Health facilities	Bed	Bed sheet	Matress	Delivery bed	Bed	Bed sheet	Matress	Delivery bed	Bed	Bed sheet	Matress	Delivery bed
Hospital	180	720	180	8	166	278	248	6	14	442	0	2
Health centre	72	180	60	3	62	140	96	3	10	40	12	0
Dispensary	38	76	38	38	38	38	38	38	0	38	0	0

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