This location is approximately 225 kilometres (140 mi), by road, northeast of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.

However, CCHU serves children with physical disabilities regardless of their ethnic background, religious affiliation, or ability to pay.

Opened in 2000, the hospital employs 6 doctors and 33 nurses and serves more than 7,000 outpatients annually, performing more than 1,000 operations per year.

[5][6] In collaboration with the West Virginia University School of Medicine, CCHU established in 2005 a comprehensive epilepsy program for Uganda and Eastern Africa.

[7] Neurosurgeons Benjamin Warf and Warren Boling of West Virginia University performed the first three epilepsy surgeries ever done in the region.

Two neurosurgeons per year will study and work at CCHU, to focus their skills on children and to concentrate on a range of afflictions of the brain and central nervous system.