Southern Ethiopia - Gwent Health Link

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.

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.