Next Ethiopia Visit

24th October 2008

Duration: 2 weeks


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We have donated over 3000 medical text books to the Awassa College of Health sciences, to the local hospitals and health centres. We have also donated training mannequins, training videos, teaching slides, teaching microscopes, laboratory reagents as well as other teaching equipment including projectors and a photocopier.

Resources donated to exemplar health centre

Oxygen supply in most hospitals in Ethiopia is extremely poor. The local hospitals in Dilla, Awassa, Yirgalem, Arbaminch and Hosanna have been donated with 8 oxygen concentrators so far by the link with support from Oxygen Therapy Air Products, UK. We have also donated one oxygen concentrator to each of the four health centres involved in the Exemplar Health Centres project.

Three health centres (Wondo-Genet, Alaba and Yirgacheffee) have been equipped with 2 computers and a printer each for e-learning purposes. These computers have been pre-loaded with a wide variety of educational content.

We have also helped set up blood banking services at Dilla hospital. This has helped with emergency surgery including caesarian sections and other obstetric procedures that would have been otherwise impossible.

 

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.


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.


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.

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.


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.


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.