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26-531: Gulu Regional Referral Hospital , commonly known as Gulu Hospital is a hospital in Gulu , northern Uganda . It is the referral hospital for the districts of Amuru , Gulu , Kitgum , Lamwo and Pader . The hospital also serves as one of the teaching hospitals of Gulu University . Gulu Hospital is located in the northern Ugandan city of Gulu , the largest metropolitan area in Uganda's Northern Region . Its location

52-766: A maternity ward and a neonatal intensive care unit . The USh20 billion (US$ 5.5 million) project, is co-funded by the government of Uganda and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). This is part of a USh60 billion (US$ 16.5 million) joint project aimed at improving and modernizing the National Regional Hospitals in Arua , Gulu and Lira . Completion of the renovations at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital are expected to conclude in October 2020. The gate upgraded into

78-491: A modern entry level 2022. Gulu The coordinates of the city of Gulu are 2°46'54.0"N 32°17'57.0"E. The city's distance from Kampala , Uganda's capital and largest city, is 333 kilometres (207 mi) by road. Gulu is served by Gulu Airport . During the British Bagool rule in the 18th and 19th centuries, northern Uganda was less developed compared to the rest of the country. The people were conscripted into

104-558: A tarmac runway that measures 10,314 feet (3,144 m). Gulu Airport is the second biggest airport in Uganda after Entebbe International Airport . Gulu has a station on the metre gauge railway that connects Tororo and Pakwach , which had been out of service since 1993. Rift Valley Railways funded the clearing of vegetation and the repair of infrastructure, thus allowing the first commercial train for 20 years to run through Gulu on 14 September 2013. The home venue for Gulu United FC

130-605: A total of 177,400. Gulu is the home of Gulu University , which has a wide range of programs including agriculture, medicine, business management, and conflict resolution. It is one of the three public universities in the Northern Region, the others being Muni University in Arua and Lira University in Lira . Gulu University is the parent institution of the Gulu University School of Medicine , one of

156-464: A tropical monsoon climate or have more pronounced dry season(s). It is impossible for a tropical savanna climate to have more than 2,500 mm (98 in) as such would result in a negative value in that equation. In tropical savanna climates, the dry season can become severe, and often drought conditions prevail during the course of the year. Tropical savanna climates often feature tree-studded grasslands due to its dryness, rather than thick jungle. It

182-715: Is Pece War Memorial Stadium, which has a capacity of 3,000 people. The stadium was built by the British in 1959, with long-delayed renovations starting in April 2017. Predominant among the places of worship are Christian facilities for communities including the: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gulu ( Catholic Church ), Eastern Orthodox Diocese of Gulu ( Patriarchate of Alexandria ), Church of Uganda ( Anglican Communion ), Presbyterian Church in Uganda ( World Communion of Reformed Churches ), Baptist Union of Uganda ( Baptist World Alliance ), Watoto Church , Assemblies of God , and

208-588: Is also prevalent in sections of northern Australia , the Pacific Islands, in extreme southern North America in south Florida , and some islands in the Caribbean . Most places that have this climate are found at the outer margins of the tropical zone , but occasionally an inner-tropical location (e.g., San Marcos , Antioquia , Colombia ) also qualifies. Similarly, the Caribbean coast, eastward from

234-479: Is approximately 101 kilometres (63 mi), by road, northwest of Lira Regional Referral Hospital . This is approximately 332 kilometres (206 mi), by road, north of Mulago National Referral Hospital , in Kampala , Uganda's capital and largest city. The geographical coordinates of Gulu Hospital are:02°46'40.0"N, 32°17'52.0"E (Latitude:2.777778; Longitude:32.297778). Gulu Hospital is a public hospital, funded by

260-445: Is in a direct contrast to a tropical monsoon climate , whose driest month sees less than 60 mm (2.4 in) of precipitation but has more than 100 − ( Total Annual Precipitation (mm) 25 ) {\textstyle 100-\left({\frac {\text{Total Annual Precipitation (mm)}}{25}}\right)} of precipitation. In essence, a tropical savanna climate tends to either see less overall rainfall than

286-452: Is one of the fifteen designated Internship Hospitals in Uganda where graduates from Ugandan medical schools can complete a one-year internship under the guidance of qualified specialists and consultants. The hospital is one of the fourteen Regional Referral Hospitals in Uganda. In 2019, the capacity of Gulu Hospital is quoted as 370 beds. In November 2019, the hospital began construction of a new hospital wing, comprising four operating rooms,

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312-403: Is the case East Africa (Mombasa, Kenya, Somalia), Sri Lanka ( Trincomalee ) and coastal regions of Northeastern Brazil (from São Luís through Natal to Maceió ), for instance. The difference between "summer" and "winter" in such tropical locations is usually so slight that a distinction between an As and Aw climate is trivial. In most places that have tropical wet and dry climates, however,

338-560: Is this widespread occurrence of tall, coarse grass (called savanna) which has led to Aw and As climates often being referred to as the tropical savanna. However, there is some doubt whether tropical grasslands are climatically induced. Additionally, pure savannas, without trees, are the exception rather than the rule. There are generally four types of tropical savanna climates: Tropical savanna climates are most commonly found in Africa , Asia , Central America , and South America . The climate

364-428: Is used in place of Aw if the dry season occurs during the time of higher sun and longer days. This is typically due to a rain shadow effect that cuts off ITCZ-triggered summer precipitation in a tropical area while winter precipitation remains sufficient to preclude a hot semi-arid climate ( BSh ) and temperatures in the summer months are warm enough to preclude a Mediterranean climate ( Csa/Csb ) classification. This

390-930: The Gulf of Urabá on the Colombia – Panamá border to the Orinoco river delta , on the Atlantic Ocean (ca. 4,000 km (2,485 mi)), have long dry periods (the extreme is the BSh climate (see below), characterized by very low, unreliable precipitation, present, for instance, in extensive areas in the Guajira , and Coro, western Venezuela, the northernmost peninsulas in South America, which receive <300 mm (11.8 in) total annual precipitation, practically all in two or three months). This condition extends to

416-501: The Gulu Regional Referral Hospital , and Gulu Independent Hospital. There is also a center for non-medical integrative therapies, Thrive-Gulu, founded by Boston-based professor Judy Dushku and her husband Jim Coleman, and part-funded by Eliza Dushku . It has received funding support from Irish aid agency Trocaire and a Scandinavian foreign aid provider. The city is served by Gulu Airport , which has

442-554: The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system . The national census in 2002 estimated Gulu's population at 119,430. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) estimated the population at 149,900 in 2010. In 2011, UBOS estimated the mid-year population at 154,300. The 2014 population census put the population at 152,276. In 2020, the mid-year population of Gulu City was projected by city division as follows: Bar Dege (47,700), Laroo (32,300), Layibi (43,900) and Pece (53,500), for

468-677: The Lesser Antilles and Greater Antilles forming the Circumcaribbean dry belt. The length and severity of the dry season diminishes inland (southward); at the latitude of the Amazon river—which flows eastward, just south of the equatorial line—the climate is Af. East from the Andes, between the arid Caribbean and the ever-wet Amazon, are the Orinoco river Llanos or savannas , from where this climate takes its name. Sometimes As

494-498: The Uganda Ministry of Health and general care in the hospital is free. It is one of the two teaching hospitals of the medical school of Gulu University . Gulu Medical School also utilizes St. Mary's Hospital Lacor , to train her doctors. Gulu Regional Referral Hospital is staffed by medical students and residents, supervised by Gulu University academic staff as well as Uganda Ministry of Health consultants. The hospital

520-864: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . There are also Muslim mosques. With loans obtained from the World Bank and KfW , the government of Uganda in 2020, completed Phase I of the Gulu Water Supply and Sanitation Project. The project required USh82.3 billion (US$ 22+ million) to be implemented. With the improvements, Gulu City has storage capacity of 42,000,000 cubic metres (1.1 × 10  US gal) of potable water . In addition, at least 42 public toilets have been built, capable of accommodating 250 people simultaneously. A new sewage sludge treatment plant in Cubu has been constructed. Phase II of

546-501: The IDP camps were closed and the people were allowed to return to their villages. By July 2009, an estimated 1,452,000 people (80.7 percent of those living in the camps) had voluntarily left the camps to return home. Since the spring of 2007, there has been relative peace in the region as the LRA became a much less significant threat. Gulu's climate is tropical wet and dry (Aw) according to

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572-500: The army and the police, with many sent to fight in the first and second World Wars . In the 1960s, many Sudanese, Rwandan, and Congolese refugees settled in the city. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) under the leadership of Joseph Kony sprang up in the 1990s after Auma/Lakwena went to Kenya. The LRA became increasingly violent in Gulu and surrounding communities. Up to 15,000 children, known as "night commuters", were fleeing into

598-580: The city for safety every evening. In 1996, the Ugandan government ordered all civilians in northern Uganda to relocate to internally displaced person (IDP) camps. Several organizations, such as Stop the Genocide in Northern Uganda , called these camps " concentration camps " and demanded their immediate closure. At one time, an estimated two million people lived in these camps. In April 2009, all

624-574: The nine accredited medical schools in Uganda as of February 2015. The Uganda Management Institute , a government-owned tertiary teaching and research institution in management and administration, has a campus in Gulu. Gulu also hosts University of the Sacred Heart Gulu , a private university affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gulu . There are three hospitals in the city: St. Mary's Hospital Lacor ,

650-479: The project involves establishment of a drinking water intake plant, upstream of Karuma Hydroelectric Power Station , with pumping capacity of 10,000 cubic metres (2,600,000 US gal) daily. This new potable water source will supply 341,000 people in Gulu and neighboring communities. It also includes the expansion of safe sanitation services to 170,000 new customers. KfW and the CDC Group are expected to fund

676-728: The second stage, starting in June 2021. Tropical wet and dry climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories Aw (for a dry "winter") and As (for a dry "summer"). The driest month has less than 60 mm (2.4 in) of precipitation and also less than 100 − ( Total Annual Precipitation (mm) 25 ) {\textstyle 100-\left({\frac {\text{Total Annual Precipitation (mm)}}{25}}\right)} mm of precipitation. This latter fact

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