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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Home Visit Reports Laboratory services at Hawassa Referral Hospital - Oct 2009

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.