African hospital care is all over the spectrum. Some we have used are fairly good. I've also been in some where the hygiene and care were worse than that received (personally) in a sandbagged aid bunker in Vietnam.
I've received very good treatment for both amoebic dysentery and Giardia in East Africa using a drug not approved by the US (tinidazole), but approved in many countries in the tropics.
For many diseases of the tropics, you will often get far better treatment from a well trained African doctor or long time missionary nurse than you would in a fancy US hospital that is not familiar with your problem. We returned to our remote Ugandan village after several weeks break in Kenya to find a woman who had fallen on a very hard, sharp broken tree branch which had pierced her abdomen and colon. This had happened a day or two prior to our return. She had a tight, distended abdomen and a high fever.
We drove her the two hours (25 miles) to the nearest bush hospital and left her in the care of a young Ugandan doctor. Two weeks later we drove out to the hospital to find her well & ready for discharge! I believe that this doctor had been educated at Makerere University in Kampala. We also have a friend who was a missionary nurse in Africa for many, many years, both in teaching and in mobile clinics in very remote areas. She would be my very first choice for treatment of African medical problems, short of major surgery.
That is amazing!
What were you doing in Uganda?