Next Link Meeting

16th January 2012 @ 5:15pm 
The Education Centre, Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny

The primary focus is to discuss the future of the link beyond 2012. Please attend. 
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Beyond 2012

Please attend the next meeting on 16.01.2012 to discuss the future of the link. The meeting is open to anybody who has been associated with the link during its 12 years of existence or wish to see it continue its activities. Details of the meeting can be found here.

The annual report for 2011 by Biku Ghosh summarises the link's activities in the past year and can be found here. 
 
Visit in Brief - Nov 2011

The link visit in November 2011 involved teaching and training, donation of equipment, evaluation & monitoring, standards setting and needs assessment.

Between the 4th and 19th November 2011, 14 members from the health link visited Ethiopia. During this period, the link members organised the following activities for over 400 front line health workers. Click here to read the complete reports.

Training/teaching

  • Training the trainers programme for nurse tutors
  • CME skills workshop in emergency obstetrics and neonatal resuscitation for midwives
  • Training in Safe and Clean delivery and newborn care for the Community health extension workers (HEW)
  • Emergency obstetrics surgery skills for MSc health officers and junior doctors
  • Advanced gynecological skills for specialists
  • Skills update for nurse anaesthtists

The link pathology team also supported Hawassa Referral Hospital pathology staff towards their WHO accreditation goals.

Support for the health facilities

  • Donated 30 oxygen concentrators to hospitals in SNNP Region
  • Paediatric, pathology, surgical and anesthetic equipment to Hawassa referral hospital
  • Surgical instruments, suction machines, anaesthetic equipment and books to newly opened Adare Hospital Donated
  • 5 electricity generators to 5 rural health centres in the Gedeo zone
  • Workshop for setting minimum standards of care at all of the 32 HCs in Gedeo zone

Needs assessment and planning for the future

  • Evaluation of link outcome in three exemplar HCs
  • Neds assessment in Chelelektu and Chichu HCs
  • Meetings to plan future activities with the HC staff, with the Zonal and Regional Health Bureau and Hawassa University College of Medicine and Health Sciences
Welcome

We are a partnership between health professionals in South Wales and healthcare workers in Southern Ethiopia. Geographically and medically, the healthcare setup in Southern Ethiopia and in the Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust in South Wales are worlds apart. But, thanks to the drive and determination of a project launched in 2000, a new world of medical care and health education is being created today. Our focus has always been the skills training of front-line health professionals like health officers, midwives and nurses working in resource-poor health centres. We also provide these health centres with essential medical equipment and training material. Visit the Projects section and the Reports section for more information.
 

Visit Photos - Nov 2011

Maternal Mortality

Ethiopia has one of the highest maternal as well as infant mortality rates in the world.

Total expenditure per capita on health (Intl $, 2004):

Ethiopia : $21 >>

UK : $2560 >>

Life Expectancy at Birth

Men on average live for only 53 yrs and women for 56 yrs. In UK men and women live for 77yrs and 81yrs respectively.