ADDIS ABABA | Mela Ethiopia SC Hospital | Design Completed

[yosef]

Location: Addis Ababa

Size: ~5 storey (built on 175,000 sq.m. of land)

Use: Hospital/Rehabilitation/Research/Specialized Care

Status: Design Completed

Share company to set up biggest specialized hospital

- Medical professionals in diaspora to play an active role

By Dawit Taye

Mela Ethiopia Share Company is to set up the biggest specialized hospital in Ethiopia with a start-up capital of 800 million, it was learnt.

The five-storey hospital building is expected to accommodate 600 beds, the highest number of beds in one hospital in Ethiopia to date.

The organizing committee disclosed that during a trip to the United States the team had the opportunity to broach the idea of starting Mela Hospital to the medical professionals there and had got encouraging responses.

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Expected to be sited on 175,000 sq.m. of land, the hospital is going to be built here in Addis Ababa. However, the preliminary design work has been completed so far. Eshetu Temesgen, a member of the organizing committee and the managing director of ETG design and consultancy, a company responsible for the design of the hospital building, said that the design was made in way that the building incorporates resident facilities for employees, research institute for the hospital and other multi-purpose rooms aside from its main use. He noted that 250 million birr of the total capital was going to the construction expense while the rest was planned to purchase medical equipments and pay professionals.

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According to the committee, the hospital is planning to give a special laser-ray treatment to cancer patients, improve supply of critical drugs and perform safe and up-to-standard surgery procedures. Besides the treatments outlined above, the hospital is also to set up a rehabilitation center for those suffering from drug abuse and other addictive behaviors in order to save foreign currency that would have been otherwise spent in such treatments. On the other hand, the organizers have also revealed a plan to treat sterility at the new hospital that would be the first of its kind in the country.

The organizers expressed their confidence in the potential of the local medical professionals and said that given the right technology and equipment the country had enough professionals to do wonders in the discipline. They said that Mela would help satisfy the professional’s thrust by providing state-of-the-art technology while helping many people in the process.

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[enkelfam]

I love Hospitals ...

More Ethiopian doctors need to invest in Ethiopia. It is amazing how many Ethiopian doctors there are just in my school. In every freaking department there is at least one person. In every single course there is an Ethiopian professor, sometimes I wonder if I am in Tikur Anbesa?

[yosef]

it is truly sad how many of our skilled minds we have been donating to the Western world without knowing it enkelfam. I like the Ethiopian North American Health Professionals Association (ENAHPA), they tend to go back to Ethiopia and provide free services at least once a year I think.

I applaud them (and the people who are building this hospital as well) for giving back.

[Yoniii]

There are few places that are as scary as hospitals, it's a weird feeling being in one for me. This is one of my favorite projects in Ethiopia, maybe not for the design but for the purpose.

More and more skilled people are coming back. Our family have a very good friend that is a cardiac specialist here in Sweden. He has been running a cardiac hospital in Addis Ababa for a while now, and it's going good. I would love to see more of that!

[Tarrex]

Yoniii I think we know the same person

Great project!

[abesha]

AERIAL VIEW OF SITE




DESIGN OF HOSPITAL









RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT CENTER




TRAINING CENTER




HOTEL




GUEST HOUSES




STAFF RESIDENCES





From their website:

Services:

o 1. Emergency and Trauma Center
o 2. Medical Department
♦ General out patient
♦ Chronic Disease Management Clinics
♦ Medical specialty clinics
- Dermatology
- Endocrine Metabolic disease
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology/oncology
- Infectious disease
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonary
- Rheumatology
♦ In-patients
- General medical ward
- Medical Step down
- Intensive care unit
♦ Special Centers
- Cardiac lab and cardiac diagnostic center
- Dialysis unit
- Endoscopy center
- Rehabilitation center
- Chemotherapy and radiation therapy center
- Pain and neurodiagnostic center

o 3. Surgical department
- General Surgery
- Cardio-vascular surgery
- Urology
- Orthopedics
- ENT
- Neurosurgery

o 4. Pediatric Department
- General outpatient pediatric clinic
- Pediatric inpatient unit
- Neonatology unit
- Pediatric intensive care unit

o 5. Gyn/Obstetrics (Women Center)
- Antenatal clinic
- GYN out-patient clinic
- Breast Center
- Fertility clinic

o 6. Eye Center
o 7. Dental and oral surgery center
o 8. Radiology and Imaging
o 9. Medical Laboratory and Pathology Department
o 10. Pharmacy Department (In-patient and out-patient)
o 11. Ambulatory Services
o 12. Wellness Center

[abesha]

Their implementation schedule



So basically construction to start next year in March, and operation to begin in January 2013.

Source of all above info: http://melahospital.com/

[Yoniii]

I am loving the design, specially the training and research buildings with the glass-balcony's. This is a great project!

[Simfan34]

Oh, wow, I am blown away.

Where will this be?