The Bwindi Community Hospital in Kanungu

Kanungu

Kanungu is a town in Western Uganda. It is the location of the district headquarters for Kanungu District. The district is named after the town.-Location:...

, Uganda

Uganda

Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

, founded by Dr Scott Kellerman, provides access to medical care for the impoverished tribal groups of southwestern Uganda, with special emphasis on the Batwa pygmies. Medical care is focused on malaria

Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...

 and HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

 prevention, provision of clean water, and sanitation. A development program concentrates on agriculture and animal husbandry, education, and home building. Medical students and volunteers in other areas are welcome for 4 to 12 week terms. Its status was upgraded from Health Centre to Hospital in 2008 after a new operating theatre

Operating theatre

An operating theater was a non-sterile, tiered theater or amphitheater in which students and other spectators could watch surgeons perform surgery...

was built.