Ethiopia

CURE's hospital in Addis Ababa is transforming the lives of children with disabilities and their families in Ethiopia through medical and spiritual healing.

•  About the Hospital

  The CURE Ethiopia Children's Hospital (CECH) is a pediatric orthopedic teaching hospital in Addis Ababa. CECH fills a critical need for an orthopedic and trauma care residency program in Ethiopia. The hospital is a state-of-the-art 60 bed hospital complex that will provide modern medical and surgical care to physically disabled children in Ethiopia.

  The hospital has a dual focus on pediatric orthopedics and pediatric plastic reconstruction. The hospital treats disabilities such as cleft lip and palate, clubfoot, burn contractures, and other physical disabilities.

  CECH brings modern, up-to-date standards and equipment such as ECG machines, pulse oximetry, anesthetic gas monitoring, and C-arm mobile X-ray units. There is also training for hospital staff in the use and maintenance of this equipment. CECH has also introduced advanced American diagnostic techniques using ultrasound, enhanced X-ray, and laboratory services which were unavailable in Ethiopia.

  Partnership with Smile Train

  Since the fall of 2006, in collaboration with Smile Train, CURE has developed cleft lip and cleft palate surgical training programs in most of CURE's hospitals worldwide. These programs not only provide surgery for children but train national surgeons in reconstructive surgery and provide counseling to the families.

•  About the Country

  Ethiopia

  

  Ethiopia is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa. It is one of the world’s oldest countries and the second-most populous nation in Africa. Eritrea borders Ethiopia to the north, Sudan to the west, Djibouti and Somalia to the east and Kenya to the south.

  Country Facts

  Population: 81,021,000

  Climate: tropical monsoon, with wide topographic-induced variation

  Nationality: Ethiopian

  Language: Amharic

  Capital: Addis Ababa

  Percent population under age of 15: 46%

  Years of life expectancy at birth: 56

  Infant mortality (per 1000 live births): 79

  Child mortality (death before age 5): 166

  Per capital health expenditure: $22

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