Ethiopia: donations for the hospital: Misereor

The Attat Hospital is a role model for health work and support for pregnant women. The Misereor partner also promotes water supply and mobile medical aid throughout the region.

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

Continent

Africa

Thematic focus:

Expanding healthcare provision

Ethiopia is a diverse country that nevertheless often lacks the most basic necessities. Particularly in remote villages, many people do not have access to clean drinking water, which increases the risk of illness. Here, of all places, medical care is not guaranteed.

The Attat Hospital has therefore been doing outstanding and sustainable work for decades. It not only provides reliable healthcare, but also actively involves the local people. The hospital is located in the remote province of Guraghe, 170 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.

The Attat Hospital specialises in preventive healthcare and birth preparation.

Laboratory work at Attat Hospital in Ethiopia

Doctor Tamrat Sultan examines a pregnant patient.

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

Basic healthcare also includes reaching people in rural and remote areas. Like here during an immunisation campaign for villagers.

Access to clean drinking water is particularly important for health.

Many children and their families are treated at Attat Hospital. This facilitates a carefree path into life.

Well-trained and sufficient specialised staff is a basic prerequisite for high-quality healthcare.

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

Laboratory work at Attat Hospital in Ethiopia

Basic healthcare includes, in particular, reaching people in rural areas and in remote and underserved areas.

Many children and their families are treated at Attat Hospital. This facilitates a carefree path into life.

Here, families receive medical care and support in difficult situations.

Caring for the very youngest patients is one of the hospital’s most important tasks. “I love my job. When mother and child are healthy, I’m happy.”

For many people, Attat Hospital is the first port of call when they are ill or during pregnancy.

Personal care and medical treatment go hand in hand here.

The health centre provides people in the region with access to much-needed treatment.

Once they have received medical care, many families are able to return to their everyday lives feeling stronger.

High-quality medical care helps to identify and treat complications at an early stage.

Good care around the time of birth gives both mother and baby a healthy start in life. “We vaccinate 4,000 babies and children every year, protecting them from serious diseases such as hepatitis and polio.”

Modern diagnostic techniques enable rapid and targeted treatment.

Working together with local people, we are creating opportunities for a self-determined future.

Training and seeds help families to improve their diet in the long term.

Clean drinking water lays the foundations for a healthy upbringing.

Access to clean drinking water brings about lasting improvements to health and quality of life.

What characterises Attat Hospital is the wide range of support it provides to the local community. Concrete and needs-orientated medical assistance is provided. One focus of the hospital is the care of pregnant women and young mothers. Just like them, their children receive comprehensive care, for example in the form of immunisations.

The Attat hospital is run by the Misereor partner organisation "Medical Mission Sisters" (MMS). MMS also runs first aid centres in around 40 villages. Trained health workers work here. They provide health education and deal with issues such as AIDS, tuberculosis, hygiene and harmful traditional practices. Vaccination programmes for the villages also provide valuable prevention.

MMS also takes care of the water supply in the villages. So-called water teams regularly check around 140 wells to ensure that people are supplied with clean drinking water.

Your donation opens up a more dignified life for the local people through medical support, education and concrete help.

Almost 8,000 patients were treated as inpatients
433 babies were cared for in the neonatal ward
Over 2,000 births were successfully carried out
Approximately 2,400 women were involved in health groups
115,000 people were reached through the women's health workshops
A new deep well was built to supply the hospital and neighbouring communities with water

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8 euros finance, for example, medication, bandages, mattresses and blankets.

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

To ensure that your donation has an impact in the long term, Misereor uses a small proportion for important administration an related tasks. This way, we make sure that projects are selected carefully and implemented responsibly and that their effects are regularly monitored. Should it not be possible to use your donation as planned, we will use it where it is currently needed most.

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.