St Pauls Hospital Millenium Medical College donated nearly 1,000,000 birr worth of medical equipment and supplies to moyale hospital. The equipment range from monitoring equipment such as pulse oxymeters to stretchers and wheelchairs. Service units at the hospital are greatly benefiting from the donations. The Emergency OPD, the most hectic unit in the hospital, has gotten a portable ultrasound. Dr Niguse, staff GP who recently trained on basic ultrasound at St Pauls, stated that the portable ultrasound would be of great use for patients. He stated “Now there is no need to take a woman who is experiencing an abortion all the way to the ultrasound room. We can just do a quick scan here and proceed to the appropriate management.” Critical patients arriving from the OR were a constant concern for Dr Feven, IPD coordinator at Moyale. “It was difficult to keep a close eye on these patients before. But now, we just attach the patients to the monitors and they do all the work. This has greatly improved our quality of follow up” she stated. “Our one and only functional blood glucometer had malfunctioned a couple of weeks back so it was a challenging situation whenever patients with DKA were admitted to the ward” stated Melkamu Tesfaye, head of Moyale’s laboratory department. “So the new glucometers from St Pauls definitely came to the rescue for us.” Tamiru Habtamu, head of the labour and delivery ward at Moyale stated that locally made toilet seats, also donated by St Pauls, will positively impact the overall experience of labouring mothers. “You can imagine how hard it is for a woman in labour to go all the way to the toilet to relieve herself.” He said. “With these local innovations, women can comfortably relieve themselves without going a long distance.” “The state of hygiene facilities in health centres in our catchment area is very disturbing” stated Dr Andinet, Clinical Systems Mentorship lead physician. “Seeing how useful the chairs have been in our labour ward, we’re going to donate some of the chairs to health centres in our catchment area. So the chairs will definitely be of great use there as well.” For his part, Arero Biqicha, Chief Executive Officer at Moyale stated that he was very happy with the partnership established with St Pauls. “The partnership we have established yields fruits every day so we sincerely appreciate the help St Pauls continues to give us.”
“I believe the reason St Pauls is considered the premier government hospital in the country is that it strives to improve service delivery not only in the hospital but in all corners of the country.” Stated Dr Ahmed Ibrahim, Chief Clinical Officer. “I would especially like to thank Dr Zerihun Abebe, provost at St Pauls. It’s through his leadership that this culture was institutionalized at St Pauls and these donations would not have been possible without him.” Initially established by the then Emperor Hailesilase in 1968EC, St Pauls currenlty has over 700 beds and 2800 academic, administrative and supportive staff, making it one of the largest teaching hospitals in Ethiopia. Comments are closed.
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