Dr. Peter Ntege, the first African Chief Operating Officer at International Hospital Kampala (IHK) has left the Namuwongo-based private hospital after a 2-year tenure.
He is set to join Avenue Healthcare as the General Manager – Hospitals. Avenue Healthcare is a Kenya based diversified healthcare services provider that offers comprehensive general and specialist inpatient, outpatient and home service care across three hospitals in Nairobi, Kisumu and Thika, with a total of 300 beds and 15 clinics.
Avenue Healthcare is a member of the Evercare Group, which runs 30 hospitals, 16 clinics and 82 diagnostic centres across Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
Evercare is wholly owned by the Evercare Health Funds, a US $1bn emerging markets healthcare fund managed by TPG. The Evercare Health Fund is comprised of the world’s leading impact investors and global development finance institutions including The Rise Fund, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), CDC, Proparco, Philips, and Medtronic.
IHK, the oldest and biggest private hospital in Uganda, has pioneered most global advancements in healthcare including Open heart surgery, laparoscopic surgery, laser surgery, cochlear implantation, and fibroid embolization among others. Since its establishment by Dr. Ian Clarke, the hospital was mainly headed by European and Asian CEOs and COOs until 2020 when Dr. Peter Ntege was appointed Chief Operating Officer.
Regarded as a fearless and passionate healthcare manager has been a critical player in Uganda’s push-back against two Covid-19 waves in which private healthcare providers played a big role in plugging the gap left by public healthcare facilities. He has also been at the forefront of streamlining Covid 19 management and pricing in private healthcare. He has also been a key campaigner for increased penetration of health insurance as a key driver of the quality and affordability of healthcare.
Among his achievements at IHK, is the increase of operational hospital capacity from 100 beds to 133 beds and a potential to expand to 150. He also spearheaded the digitalisation of outpatient services, the improvement of the structural layout and ambience of the IHK specialist centre as well as the introduction of a digitalized nurse call-bell service.
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IHK remains the only Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA) accredited hospital in Uganda, which under the stewardship of Dr. Ntege, increased its specialists’ base and introduced new services and specialities like interventional radiology, arthroscopy, cosmetic dermatology and plastic surgery. The hospital also increased its range of other laparoscopic and laser surgery procedures and the frequency of cochlear implantation surgeries.
Dr Ntege started as a medical doctor at Mulago in 2011 before joining Mildmay Uganda in 2013. He then went on to serve as Head of the Renal Unit at the government-owned Kisenyi Health Centre in 2014. He joined AAR Uganda in 2015 and served first as a Business Development Manager before being promoted to the Head of Clinical Operations and Business Development between 2017 and 2019.
From AAR, he was appointed the Deputy General Manager of the International Medical Group, IHK’s parent company, from 2019 to 2020.
In 2020 March, Dr Ntege was then appointed Acting Head of Clinical Operations at International Hospital Kampala and served in that capacity up to July 2020. At the same time, he was appointed Chief operating officer, a position he has held up to recently.
He holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and a Master of Public Health specializing in Health Care Administration/Management from Makerere University.
