Hospital in Bururi Province, Burundi
The Rutovu Hospital (French: Rutovu Hospital) is a hospital in Bururi Province, Burundi.
The hospital is a district hospital in the southeast of the Matana Health District, which serves the north of Bururi Province.
It is a public district hospital serving a population of 90,709 as of 2014.
The Rutovu Hospital is supported by Czech doctors.
As of 2016 the only other hospitals in the province were the Bururi Hospital and the Matana Hospital.
The hospital is in the southwest of the town of Rutovu.
In August 2014 two nurses were arrested in possession of dental equipment that had been stolen from the hospital.
In September 2014 the director of the hospital was arrested, the fifth employee to be arrested in connection with repeated theft of medical equipment from the hospital.
Thefts included dental equipment, microscopes, a biochemistry device and the ultrasound machine.
- Burundi Health Map (PDF), Burundi Ministry of Public Health, 2016, retrieved 2024-06-21
- HD Rutovu Performance Based Financing (in French), Ministry of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS, retrieved 2024-08-08
- Nzorubonanya, Felix (17 September 2014), “Rutovu Hospital: 5 people arrested for theft of medical equipment”, Our home (in French), retrieved 2024-08-12
- Progress in the fight against thefts at Rutovu hospital (in French), Radio Publique Africaine, 27 August 2014, retrieved 2024-08-12
- “Way: Hopital de Rutovu (784409782)”, OpenStreetMapretrieved 2024-08-12
