Next Ethiopia Visit

20/03/10 - 27/03/10

  • Basic surgical skills course
  • Trauma & fracture workshop
  • Theatre nursing skill course
  • Training of community health workers
  • Donation of 50 bicycles
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The Link runs many projects tailored for the local requirements. All the projects are conducted in close collaboration with local health authorities in Ethiopia as well as the World Health Organisation and Tropical Health and Education Trust. The link has rapidly expanded over the past 8 years and has transformed from the Dilla-Abergavenny Link to the Southern Ethiopia-Gwent Link reflecting the wider involvement on both sides of the partnership.

However, our focus has always been and will continue to be the training of front-line health professionals like health officers, nurses and midwives who work in rural Ethiopia with extremely limited facilities. While we continue to liaise with Hawassa Referral Hospital to conduct training workshops for front-line health professionals, our focus is strongly on capacity building at health centres as exemplified by the exemplar health centres project. We have had excellent support not only from health professionals both in the UK and in Ethiopia but also from organisations like THET, the WHO, British Embassy in Addis as well as the Welsh Assembly. We hope to expand our activities and collaborate with other NGOs in the region to improve health care provision in rural Ethiopia. Read more...

Emergency Skills

We have trained several hundred front-line health professionals in emergency and essential surgical, trauma and resuscitation skills for use in resource-poor health centres.

Exemplar Health Centres

Exemplar Health Centre Project

We have committed to training and supporting staff at Wondo-Genet, Alaba and Yirgacheffee health centres in the long term. These will serve as beacons of quality health care in their regions.

Midwifery Skills

Maternal mortality is very high in Ethiopia. We conduct bi-annual skills workshops for health officers, nurses and midwives in obstetric skills. We also provide essential equipment.

E-learning

Computers at Alaba Health Centre

E-learning at the health centre level is a first in Ethiopia. We provide training as well as infrastructure. This helps us provide continuing medical education through relevant, interactive content.

Laboratory Skills

Lab technician with microscope

We conduct training workshops for medical lab technicians as as well as provide teaching microscopes, training materials and reagents. Over 200 lab students have been trained.

Material Resources

Resources donated to Wondo-Genet Health Centre

Over the years we have donated oxygen concentrators, essential surgical and obstetric equipment as well as several thousand medical textbooks, teaching materials and computers.
 

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 50 yrs and women for 53 yrs. In UK men and women live for 77yrs and 81yrs respectively.