Background
Soddo Christian Hospital is the second mission hospital in the region; the first, an SIM mission hospital, was taken over by the Ethiopian government in 1974.
Location
The hospital is located in Soddo, a city of roughly 80,000 people in southwestern Ethiopia, about 200 miles from Addis Ababa. (330 km) The Wolaitta region, which has about 2.5 million people, is one of the most populated and impoverished areas in Ethiopia.
Services
The 120-bed hospital provides a range of medical, surgical, dental, maternity and pediatric care. The facility is licensed for 199 beds. It supplies diagnostic imaging, physical therapy, a laboratory, pharmacy, optometry clinic, dental clinic and four operating rooms. There are five wards, including one for general surgery, one medicine and pediatrics, one obstetrics and gynecology, one for orthopedic surgery, and a surgical recovery/intensive care unit.
Common diagnoses include tumors and cancers, infection, trauma, deformities, malaria, tuberculosis, pregnancy complications, and mossy foot, a form of elephantiasis. HIV is not a uncommon problem (about 8%) in this rural area of southwestern Ethiopia.
The 180-member staff is made up of Christian Ethiopian doctors and workers, aided by expatriate specialists.
0 Comments