Riello UPS has donated several uninterruptible power supply devices to the Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda.
The devices will help protect critical medical services at the hospital, which was developed thanks to a project by UK charity EMERGENCY.
The new hospital facility is built on 120,000 square metres of land made available by the Ugandan government. It is the second structure built by the African Network of Medical Excellence [ANME] a multinational body designated by the EMERGENCY charity to develop an integrated network of medical centres of excellence across Africa.
The hospital is the latest of a string of projects run by EMERGENCY since its establishment in 1994, to help provide free and high-quality healthcare to victims of war, violence and poverty. To date, the charity has provided treatment to more than 11 million people across 19 different countries.
The Children’s Surgical Hospital has a capacity of 72 beds, including a six-bed intensive care unit. It also has three operating theatres on site, along with an analysis laboratory, blood bank, pharmacy, administrative and training facilities, and a 42-bed guest house to support patients and families from across the continent. The charity called upon the expertise of Italian architect Renzo Piano and the renowned Studio TAMassociati to make the hospital a reality.
In such a critical medical environment, it is paramount that the sophisticated systems within the structure along with its diagnostic equipment and operating theatres are not interrupted or damaged by poor quality electrical supplies.
For this reason, Riello UPS agreed to support the hospital project by donating a number of UPS systems to protect the most strategic areas of the building including the operating theatres, analysis laboratories, diagnostic tools, medical gas distribution systems, and the wider children’s emergency department.
The Multi Sentry units which form part of these UPS systems achieve an efficiency of up to 96 per cent, saving 35 per cent of the energy dissipated in a year, while also providing up to 15 per cent more active power than similar UPS devices available on the market.
