Lastly, as a University Teaching Hospital, Lira University’s mandate is to produce health professionals in the medical and paramedical fields such as clinical, laboratory, therapeutic, nursing, dental, and community health sciences.  A Teaching Hospital is used as a training facility for students but it also provides day to day traditional clinical functions of a hospital. The Teaching hospital is also a center for applied medical research expected to attract researchers from allover the world to conduct critical studies and inquiry into tropical medicine, pharmaceutical sciences including herbal medicine and a host of other medical research. Lira University Teaching Hospital has a poll of consultants who provide specialized consultancy services to our clients and help train students and mentor younger faculty staff.

1. The hospital still has inadequate investigative capacity due to lack of equipment in some of the essential units. At the moment, there is no x-ray services. However, the procurement of a modern x-ray machine is in advance stage. It is expected to be installed in July 2021.
2. The laboratory investigations are still limited because of difficulties in procuring laboratory reagents. Steps are being taken to solve this challenge.