Opinion Paper

The district hospital: A rare story of success and a way forward

Jason Fader, Tim Fader
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine | Vol 17, No 1 | a4780 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v17i1.4780 | © 2025 Jason Fader, Tim Fader | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 03 October 2024 | Published: 16 January 2025

About the author(s)

Jason Fader, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hope Africa University, Bujumbura, Burundi
Tim Fader, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hope Africa University, Bujumbura, Burundi

Abstract

The district hospital is a vital part of the healthcare system in sub-Saharan Africa. It is the key to enabling Primary Health Care to be done well, which in turn can allow for Universal Health Coverage to be achieved. There are numerous challenges at district hospitals making successful ones somewhat rare. One example of a successful district hospital is put forth in this article. In order to increase the number of successful district hospitals a means of sharing solutions to common problems needs to be created, which would ideally be an online repository of said solutions, available to any interested district hospital.


Keywords

district hospital; health care systems; sustainability; first referral hospital; primary healthcare

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