 During the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, between 2,000 and 10,000 women and children would crowd into the hospital compound every night, to avoid the night-time attacks and abductions by the Lord's Resistance Army.During the violent and tyrannical reign of Idi Amin in the 1970s, the hospital was often caught in the crossfire.Throughout the 1980s, the hospital remained at constant risk as thugs repeatedly ransacked the compound, looking for drugs or petrol.