During World War II, 6,443 Poles refugees from occupied Poland, including 704 men (mostly elders), 2,833 women and 2,906 children, were admitted to Uganda.

[4] A preserved remnant of Polish refugees in Uganda is the Our Lady Queen of Poland Catholic Church near Masindi.

Wanda Błeńska, Polish leprosy expert, and former resistance member during World War II, was the physician-in-chief of the Buluba Hospital from 1951 to 1983.

She developed the hospital into an internationally recognized modern centre for leprosy treatment.

[7] The Emergency Medical Team of the Polish Center for International Aid supported a regional hospital in Koboko, where refugees of the South Sudanese Civil War were treated.