📋 Tender Overview
Scope :
Construction of a US$70 million cardiac hospital in the Kampala district of Uganda. UHI has been allocated 10 acres of land at the Naguru-Nakawa estate to establish the cardiac centre, which is planned to handle 500 open-heart surgeries a year.
The first phase of the construction will target 250 beds, which will be expanded 500 in five to seven years and subsequently to 1,000.
The civil works are expected to cost US$46 million and include the construction of three blocks, namely:
A clinical block with a ground+9 floors layout;
A research and laboratories block with a ground+9 floors layout;
A staff and maintenance block with a ground+8 floors layout.
The cardiac centre will feature two fully equipped emergency admittance and care facilities, intensive care and emergency units with catheterisation procedure rooms, x-rays, and CT scans, two operating theatres, and five clinical and research laboratories.
The feasibility study for the project was completed in 2018.
In September 2023, Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) had signed a US$30 million loan agreement to support the construction and equipping of the UHI facility.
The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) are providing loans of US$20 million each, while the government of Uganda will contribute US$3 million to the project.
