Ethiopia: donations for the hospital: Misereor

The Attat Hospital in Ethiopia is a role model for healthcare work and support for pregnant women. It also supports numerous important local issues, such as water supply and mobile medical aid in remote areas.

Your donation enables vital obstetric care, operations and the chance of a healthy life.

Continent

Africa

Thematic focus:

Expanding healthcare provision

The clinic is located in the remote province of Guraghe, 200 kilometres southwest of the capital Addis Ababa. It is highly regarded and trusted by the local population. People travel from far and wide to get help.

What characterises the Attat Hospital is the wide range of support it provides to the local community. Very specific and diverse medical assistance is provided. For example, 3,000 births were attended in 2022. The hospital's work with mothers affected by high-risk pregnancies is considered so exemplary that some of the measures have now been incorporated into the national health plan. In addition, 480 patients at Attat Hospital received HIV/Aids medication last year. Of particular importance, of course, are the necessary immunisations administered in hospital for young children - for example, for tuberculosis.

Doctor Tamrat Sultan examines a pregnant patient.

The hospital can continue to provide health and development services despite coronavirus, but under difficult conditions.

Murgat Gebre (centre), Tehena Gebru (left) and Teresa Muarieh (right) from the women's group in the village of Sisah

The Attat Hospital specialises in preventive healthcare and birth preparation.

The project maintains first aid centres in 42 villages. Trained health workers are employed here. They also provide health education and deal with issues such as AIDS, tuberculosis, cleanliness and harmful traditional practices. Vaccination programmes for the villages also provide valuable prevention.

Non-mobile people are cared for in the villages. The hospital also takes care of the water supply here. Water teams regularly check around 140 wells to ensure that people are supplied with clean drinking water.

Your support enables local people to lead a more dignified life through medical support, education and concrete help. We would like to thank you for this on behalf of our partners and the people you are helping.

Pregnant women are enabled to participate in the screening programme
Access to obstetric care is created
Educational events are offered

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8 euros finance medication, bandages, mattresses and blankets.

For donations by bank transfer, please state the project number "P10057" in the reference.

Sometimes we receive more donations for a project than was granted to the legal holder of the respective project. The projects listed here are examples of the work Misereor supports all over the world. If donations for a project exceed the amount granted to its legal holder, we allocate the surplus to other projects with a similar concept.

Our local partner organisations

Medical Mission Sisters (MMS)

The Attat Hospital of the Ethiopian Catholic Church is run by members of the "Medical Mission Sisters" (MMS), an international congregation of sisters. Since their foundation in 1925, the MMS have been active in the healthcare sector, primarily caring for poor or oppressed people without access to healthcare services. Today, over 600 sisters from 23 nations belong to the MMS. They are active worldwide.