Ethiopia Healthcare

[Ahadu]

Originally Posted by Simfan34

Well, if it's from Yale, .

I trust news from WALTA / ENA / ETV or ESAT...

Anyway, big respect to Tedros Adhanom - he is walking the walk!

[DZman]

Ethiopia’s Mortality Caused by HIV/AIDS Decreased by 70% but PMTCT Program Failed
By Feven Getachew
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- According to the latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and UNAIDS “Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Response” increased access to HIV services resulted in a 15% reduction of new infections over the past decade and a 22% decline in AIDS-related deaths in the last five years. Moreover, the American President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), reported that from 2003 to 2007, mortality in Addis Ababa attributable to AIDS declined by 70%.

http://www.ssinformer.com/

[DZman]

In Ethiopia, bringing child pneumonia deaths down to zero

Introducing the pneumonia vaccine

According to the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey, the under-five mortality rate in Ethiopia has fallen to 88 per 1000 live births, down from 123 per 1000 live births in 2005.

The Government’s efforts to expand community-based care through health posts and community extension workers have contributed to these improvements in child survival. So have the distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to reduce malaria, the promotion of hand-washing to reduce diarrheal diseases, and village-level treatment of severe acute malnutrition.

Now, with the pneumococcal vaccine, Ethiopia hopes to tackle yet another scourge.

“Pneumonia contributes around 28 per cent [of all child deaths]. That’s one of the major contributors to under-five mortality,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Ethiopia’s Minister of Health, at the 16 October launch of the new vaccine. “If we can really address that part, I think it will contribute very significantly to reducing under-five mortality.”

The vaccine was introduced by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health with support from the GAVI Alliance, which includes UNICEF and the World Health Organization.

“This is our biggest country launch so far, and pneumococcal vaccine is our most powerful vaccine,” said Daniel Thornton of the GAVI Alliance. “Pneumonia kills more children than any other disease in the world each year. Pneumonia kills at least 100,000 children each year in Ethiopia, and with the vaccine we believe we can prevent more than 50,000 deaths a year.”

'Health is more important'
On 8 December, health extension workers Belainesh Arersa and Shewaye Berhanu prepared for the Derer Ebija health post’s biweekly vaccination programme.

“Pneumonia is an illness that affects many of the children in this area,” Ms. Arersa said. “As a result mothers have to stop doing their work to go to and from hospital. Now that this vaccine has been introduced, children will not die, and mothers will no longer waste their time traveling back and forth between home and hospital.”

A large crowd had gathered outside the vaccination room.

“Today we have a lot of people,” Ms. Arersa explained. “They are here, first because we provide a routine vaccination programme twice a week from here. In addition because the PCV, or pneumonia prevention vaccine, is now available, there is a campaign to mobilize the community by the community health volunteers.”

Temam Ahmed, a farmer, was one of the few fathers in the waiting area. He had come to immunize his 9-month-old son, Hamid. Mr. Ahmed was himself recently diagnosed with pneumonia, and had to travel more than 20 km to be treated. Protecting Hamid from the same fate was a priority.

“I therefore left the farm [to bring him here] because his health is more important,” Mr. Ahmed said.

“With the introduction of the pneumococcal vaccine,” said UNICEF Representative in Ethiopia Ted Chaiban, health extension workers “have added a new weapon in their arsenal of simple preventative measures to fight child deaths.”

The vaccine complements a broader scale-up in community-based treatment of pneumonia with oral antibiotics. Soon, health workers like Ms. Arersa will not only be vaccinating children against pneumonia but also treating the disease.

Today, a staggering number of child deaths are attributable to pneumonia, said Mr. Chaiban, “so with the vaccine and the community treatment of pneumonia, we are bringing that down way to zero.”

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ethiopia_61168.html

[Yoniii]

Ethiopia Gets On the Pill, and That Matters for Africa

African countries are too often lumped together as one big composite of grave statistics and chronic epidemics. Because of this, it’s especially important that the global development and reproductive health communities recognize and amplify those success stories that can be told. Especially when these stories are designed and driven by local efforts.

Less than 20 years ago, contraceptive use in Ethiopia among married women of reproductive age was a measly 3 percent, and maternal mortality rates were among the highest in the world. Today, contraceptive use is at 29 percent, double that of just five years ago and higher now than the level of contraceptive use in Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. It’s an exponential increase in record time. Maternal deaths have also dropped, and now occur at less than half the rate they were just a few decades ago.

“Government ownership is critical [for improving reproductive health],” says Dan Pellegrom, President of Pathfinder International, which has worked in the country since 1964.“ And Ethiopia’s government took ownership.” That ownership took the form of renewed commitment to women and girls, and creative collaborations with aid agencies to make long-acting contraceptive methods in particular more available.

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[Simfan34]

How can we ever expect decent healthcare?

[mike7743]

What is that? Are those scrubs?

[Simfan34]

Medical records.

[Arinze]

Medical files, God I would quit on the spot if I had to organize that

[yosef]

ETV News - Tirunesh Beijing General Hospital Inaugurated: http://www.ethiotube.net/video/18448...al-Inaugurated

[yosef]

Strategic Action Plan set to help achieve MDGs

The Federal Ministry of Health produced the first National Hygiene & Sanitation Strategic Action Plan that would help the country meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).The final draft of the Strategic Action Plan (SAP) indicated that 414 million dollar (7.27 billion birr) is needed to meet the target until the end of the MDG in 2015.

“In Ethiopia, our eyes are on our own Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) targets, but globally we are also committed to achieving the MDGs and the hygiene and sanitation targets established through the AfricaSan process, including the ‘eThekwini’ commitments made in 2008,” Tedros Adhanom (PhD), Minister of MoH said.

“The preparation of this Strategic Action Plan (SAP) will help Ethiopia realise its ambitious hygiene and sanitation targets,” Dr Tedros explained.
The cost related to MoH (primarily for communities and health institutions) has been estimated to reach 244 million dollar while 131 million dollar is associated with the education sector. An estimated 39 million dollar will be contributed by communities (chiefly through provision of labour and local materials).

The SAP also forms a key element of Ethiopia’s Universal Access Plan for water and sanitation, which calls for reaching 100 percent access to sanitation and 98 per cent access to water supply by 2015.

read the rest @Capital

[yosef]

Originally Posted by yosef

ETV News - Tirunesh Beijing General Hospital Inaugurated: http://www.ethiotube.net/video/18448...al-Inaugurated

some screen-shots:

[Simfan34]

How modern looking!

[Yoniii]

[enkelfam]

Ethiopia to Construct Public Health Training Center
TUESDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2012 11:09 NEWBUSINESSETHIOPIA.COM
BY NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA REPORTER




The United States President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), financed 4 million US dollars for the construction of a new national public health training center in Ethiopia.

It will be the first national training center for health, according to the press statement from the United States Embassy in Ethiopia. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Programs in Ethiopia (CDC-Ethiopia) will manage the construction of this facility over the next one and half years. The construction of the Center is expected to be finalized by April 2014.

“Since 2004, CDC-Ethiopia has collaborated with the Ethiopian Government to renovate and construct regional public health laboratories, outpatient departments in hospitals, training venues for health workers, and other health related facilities that bring direct benefit to the people of Ethiopia. These collaborations with Ethiopia to improve infrastructure are essential for the improvement of healthcare delivery, which in turn enable the public to receive better quality healthcare,” the statement noted.

The Ethiopian Minister of Health, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, and the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, Donald E. Booth, officially launched the construction of the center at the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI).

The new national public health training center will be a state-of-the-art facility that will act as a training and support hub for Ethiopia's national public health monitoring, research, and laboratory network.

“Strategically placed U.S. government investments expand and improve the functioning of the health care workforce; emphasizing holistic pre-service and in-service education, which prepares workers to address both HIV and broader health care needs” said U.S. Ambassador, Donald E. Booth, at the groundbreaking ceremony.

Designed in accordance with international building codes and best practices in construction, the training center will be a state of the art four floor structure. Its facilities will include an auditorium that seats 500 people and a number of training and meeting rooms. It will offer wireless internet, fully equipped conference rooms with projection and video-conference facilities and multimedia classrooms.

http://www.newbusinessethiopia.com/i...alth&Itemid=52

[enkelfam]

U.S. Government Inaugurates New Regional Laboratory in Adama, Breaks Ground on Adama Medical College Out-Patient Annex, Valued at about $7 Million




US Embassy Press Release

Adama, Oromia - The first state of the art regional laboratory in Ethiopia, constructed by the United States Department of State with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and with funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was formally inaugurated and handed over to the Oromia Regional State today. Dr. Kebede Worku, State Minister for Health, Donald Booth, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, and Ato Abdulaziz Mohammed, Vice President of the State of Oromia, attended the inauguration ceremony.

The regional laboratory was constructed at a cost of USD $ 2.9 million (53 million Eth birr) and will serve a population of approximately 6 million in Oromia region. With an HIV prevalence of 1.0% and 224,093 people living with HIV and AIDS, the new laboratory is expected to increase health services and improve the lives of those in the region.

The new, modern two-story building includes structural elements which prevent the spread of infections such as a spacious work environment, mechanical ventilation, a back-up generator for the entire facility, and a walk-in freezer. It will also serve as a training site for laboratory professionals on the diagnosis of HIV, tuberculosis (TB), malaria, ART monitoring and quality management system.

The construction of this laboratory is part of the U.S. government’s overall assistance to help strengthen the integrated laboratory services across the Ethiopian public health laboratory network. This new laboratory will provide easy access to affordable quality laboratory services for the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and opportunistic and sexually transmitted infections.

In addition to attending the inauguration ceremony today, Dr. Kebede, Ambassador Booth and Ato Abdulaziz broke ground on the construction of a new out-patient department (OPD) annex for Adama Hospital Medical College. The people of the United States, through PEPFAR, have committed an additional USD $ 4 million for the construction of this new OPD annex. CDC-Ethiopia will provide oversight of the construction of this facility.

When completed, the OPD annex will have emergency units with examination rooms, a pharmacy and laboratory, and outpatient facilities including registration, data room, ultrasound room, labor and delivery suite, maternity ward, ART Examination and Pediatric ART rooms, among others. It will also have administration and training facilities.

http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/201...atory-in-adama

[enkelfam]

University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and AAU collaborate to start Family Medicine residency.

http://medicine.utoronto.ca/news/u-t...egins-ethiopia

[enkelfam]

Diaspora Doctors to Start Specialized Hospital in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA — A group of 150 Ethiopian doctors living abroad are constructing a hospital in their home country that will offer state-of-the-art medical treatment. This new hospital is designed to reduce the number of Ethiopians seeking medical facilities abroad.

The Ethio-American Doctors Group, an association of more than150 Ethiopian doctors in the diaspora, is realizing its dream: establishing an up-to-date hospital in their homeland that includes a medical school and a medical research center.

Dr. Yonas Legessa Cherinet of the Doctors Group said the new hospital will feature 27 medical specialties that currently are not offered in Ethiopia.

“There are a varieties of fields where service is very limited here. I could mention vascular surgery, urology, pulmonology, neuro-surgery and reproductive endocrinology, which is not available. So many doctors are coming in with so many specialities, there will be a core group of these specialists who will be coming here to lead some departments, to work here,” said Yonas.

The Doctors Group hopes that fewer Ethiopians will go abroad for medical help if they can be treated inside the country.

Currently, many Ethiopians that can afford better treatment go to Asia, the Middle East and South Africa. The Bangkok Hospital in Thailand treated more than 6,000 Ethiopians in 2011 alone. A lot of money is involved, as the average treatment costs about $20,000.

Dr. Zelelam Abebe, who works in a private clinic in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, said there is a large need for first-class medical services in the country.

"I had to refer several people to hospitals abroad for different cardiac surgeries, brain surgery and advanced cancer cases,” he said.

Dr. Yonas said that providing for Ethiopians who might otherwise go abroad means the hospital will have to be run differently - and better - compared to most other facilities in the country.

“The reasons they mention [for going abroad] vary from the quality of care to the way they are treated in respect. So we want to bring a new culture here of medical care, which will be patient-centered,” said Yonas.

But with an average yearly income of $1,200, most Ethiopians will not be able to afford the treatments offered at the new facility. Yonas said money will be raised for those in financial need.

”We also have what we call the EDG fund, which will be taking 10 percent of our profit for people who cannot afford quality service,” he said.

Tariku Assefa is a general practicing doctor who works at the Black Lion Hospital, the largest hospital in Ethiopia, which also includes a medical school. He welcomes the idea of the new hospital, but hopes the new research facility will focus on diseases prevalent in Ethiopia.

“We use most of the research that were done in the western countries. We take example from America or other western countries because those research is done there. In most of the disease entity we don’t have our own figures, we use the figures of other people, which is somehow biased because the one which is in the West may not work for us,” said Tariku.

The hospital is scheduled to open its doors by 2016 and employ 300 to 400 people, of whom 50 will be physicians. Some doctors from the diaspora will return to Ethiopia, while others will commit several weeks per year to an exchange of knowledge with the hospital.

http://www.voanews.com/content/diasp...a/1608344.html

[abesha]

I'm so happy I could cry! This is so badly-needed. My own family is among those who go to Thailand for treatment.

Is this that hospital we were discussing here a couple of years ago? We even had a render for it. I'll bump it when I get to my computer in a minute.

[abesha]

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1136849

This is the hospital I'm referring to.

This is the website for this project http://www.ethioamericandoctors.org/

[enkelfam]

I have no idea. I am not personally involved in this project. I have my own plan which is a little different than what these physicians are doing.