Holy Innocents Surgical Center

Holy Innocents Children's Hospital Uganda, Inc. is working to bring better health to all children of Mbarara, Uganda and its surrounding villages through better medical care and prevention. We're non-profit, non-sectarian and non-political, with only one focus: better health for a better life for children in one small part of the world.

Having already raised over $700,000 we are calling on you, people of faith who want to help this truly amazing cause. The Holy Innocents Children's Hospital is close to getting a new Surgical Center, with $300,000 they will make that dream a reality. 

Look at what a small beginning at San Rafael Catholic Church in Rancho Bernardo, California has grown into:
• A 60-bed children’s hospital, including a section for critically ill infants.

• Over 22,000 children have been admitted to the hospital as In-Patients and over 107,000 more have been treated as Out-Patients at the hospital clinic. On July 4th the hospital had been open for six years.

• Funded a significant portion of operating costs for three years until the people of Mbarara could establish the means for running the hospital. Since 2012 they have been funding 100% of operating costs.

• Raised a total of over $2.2 million in cash since 2007, plus In-Kind donations of  equipment totaling over $500,000, and hundreds of volunteer hours from
doctors, nurses, students, and others.

• Administrative expenses total less than 3%. This means that more than 97 cents of every dollar donated has gone to help the people of Mbarara.
A mother holding her child during one of the mission trips. 

Dr. Frank Stackhouse, professor of medicine at the University of Washington, visited the hospital in 2010 to help train the nurses and doctors there. He wrote the following after his return:

“During my years of work in other medical settings in Uganda and other countries, such as Ethiopia, Cambodia and Vietnam, I have had a chance to see a great variety of medical care. Nowhere have I seen the careful attention and thoroughness of the care at Holy Innocents Hospital provided in such a beautifully designed and furnished building and by such hardworking staff. I will be forever saddened by my experiences watching children die who might have been saved in the US, but that has been more than offset by the joy I had watching very, very sick children who looked to me to be near death; recover and leave the hospital in the arms of their happy and thankful parents. I smile daily just thinking about those beautiful faces. Uganda has been called the Pearl of Africa, but I think holy Innocents is the Pearl of Uganda.”
A child in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.