About Us

St. Francis Nsambya Hospital’s Training Department for Nursing, Midwifery and Laboratory Technology. We’re Uganda’s Leading Health Care Training Institution.

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St. Francis Nsambya Hospital Training School is a one in three school, comprising of a Nursing, Midwifery and Laboratory schools. It is the training department of St. Francis Hospital. The school was started by Mother Kevin Kearner a Franciscan missionary sister from Ireland who also founded Nsambya hospital in 1903. She started an enrolled Midwifery school in 1919 in order to develop staff that would help her handle the many obstetrical problems that faced mothers and their unborn children at that time. With the expansion of the hospital in the course of the years, the need for personnel of different cadres became evident and more courses have been introduced as shown in Table 1.

GOAL: To produce a God-fearing professional health worker, able to provide quality services to clients

VISION: To be an internationally reputable health training institution

MISSION: To provide high quality health personnel enriched with theoretical knowledge and evidence based practice

VALUES

  • • Commitment to Catholic / Christian values
  • • Integrity
  • • Professionalism
  • • Mutual respect

Meet Our Leading Staff

Our great team has made us Uganda’s Leading Health Care Training Institution. We have three departments; Nursing, Midwifery and Medical Laboratory Technology.

Sr. Stella Josephine Namatovu

Sr. Stella Josephine Namatovu

Principal Tutor

Ms Namukasa Jane Frances

Ms. Namukasa Jane Frances

Deputy Principal Tutor

Numbers Speaks

10+

Awards

5+

Countries

12+

Partners

7K+

Students


Mother Kevin Kearney a Franciscan Missionary Sister from Ireland founded the Training School of St. Francis Hospital Nsambya in 1921 after starting the Hospital in 1903. She started an enrolled Midwifery school in 1921 in order to develop staff that would help her handle the many obstetrical problems that faced mothers and their unborn children at that time.

Mother Kevin, formerly Teresa Kearney, was born on 28th April, 1875 in Knockenrahan, Arklow, Co Wicklow. She first left for Uganda on 2nd December 1902 and arrived on January 15th 1903 as a Franciscan Sister of St Mary’s Abbey, Mill Hill, London. In 1952 she founded the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa.

The Centenary Celebrations of St. Francis Nsambya Hospital Training School were marked with a magnificent modern state of the art building in commemoration of Mother Kevin Kearney. The new landmark is the  training school’s administration and classroom block.

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