the hospital is intended to serve, primarily the residents of (a) nakawa division (b) kampala metropolitan area and (c) other ugandans. naguru general hospital is also meant to decongest mulago national referral hospital, the only general public hospital serving an estimated 3 million inhabitants of the kampala metropolitan area. plans are underway by the government of uganda to construct a general hospital in each of the five divisions of kampala, by 2016. in june 2014, construction of the hospital's staff quarters began in the kireka neighborhood in kira municipality, wakiso district, approximately , east of naguru. the hospital employs 356 staff led by the executive director, doctor edward naddumba.