Kala-azar wards in Addis Zemen and Axum (KalaCORE)
Addis Zemen, Amhara region, and Axum, Tigray region (Ethiopia)
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2017-2018
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The story behind the project
As part of KalaCORE, the program against visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, funded by UK aid, two hospitals in Ethiopia needed more than training: they needed somewhere to care for their patients.
Addis Zemen (Amhara). The newly built primary hospital had 40 beds for all its services and could not admit these patients without leaving everyone else without a bed. They were still being treated at the health center, which had no doctor: around 150 a year, and up to 28 at a time in peak season.
St. Mary Hospital, Axum (Tigray). In peak season, the hospital cared for patients in tents set up on a concrete platform outside the building.
We installed a semi-permanent prefabricated ward at each hospital: 20 beds in Addis Zemen and 10 in Axum, the latter on the platform itself. We handed them over in 2018 with beds, mattresses, bedside tables and privacy screens, plus examination tables in Addis Zemen.
