Bumerec Hospital

Bumerec Hospital (Hôpital Bumerec), or the Burundi Medical and Research Center, is a private hospital located in Bujumbura, Burundi.

Location
The Bumerec Hospital is in the Kabondo district in the southwest of central Bujumbura, between the Avenue du Large and Lake Tanganyika. The hospital is well-equipped, has an emergency department and a surgery, and gives specialized consultations.

History
There was an attempted army coup against the government of President Pierre Nkurunziza on 13 May 2015, but it failed and the leaders were arrested. Two rebels who had been injured in a gunfight with loyalist forces were admitted to the hospital on 15 May 2018. Two other rebels entered the hospital in the morning. Later in the day between 50 and 100 soldiers and police officers stormed the Bumerec hospital in search of supporters of the coup. They opened fire on the bedridden rebels, then searched the building, where the other two were hiding among the patients. One loyalist policeman was shot and died, one rebel died and the other three were wounded, and taken away.

On 1 April 2020 the health minister of Burundi, Thadée Ndikumana, announced that the first Covid-19 cases in the country were being hospitalized at Bumerec hospital. One had returned to Burundi from Rwanda and the other from Dubai.