It is the largest hospital with 1, beds. UTH is the main medical training institution in Zambia for doctors, nurses, clinical officers and other health professionals. It provides primary, secondary and tertiary care. It was built in with 15 bed capacity and was meant for sick Africans who were only cared for by male orderlies as the hospital had no doctors and nurses. Therefore, a new hospital was started at present day UTH site in and became a training hospital in the same year.
UTH is located in Ridgeway in the capital city of Lusaka, approximately 4 km east of the city centre. This hospital in Africa related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a building or structure in Zambia is a stub. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.
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