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The hospital's missions are to ensure and offer quality medico-surgical care to the entire population by buying and selling medico-surgical products and materials, by doing paraclinical examinations and other explorations of all kinds without forgetting to other legal activities allowing it to carry out its mission. It is located in the Maîrie of Bujumbura in MUKAZA Commune. It was inaugurated in 1949 and at that time served the entire indigenous population of Ruanda, Urundi and eastern Belgian Congo. Its capacity has grown and today it reaches more than 600 beds; which makes it the largest hospital in the country. It was a public hospital until 1992, when it became a Personalized State Administration (APE) with management autonomy entrusted to a team of directors acting under the supervision of the Board of Directors.

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