Ethiopia

Haramaya

CASIEF is supporting a new partnership with Haramaya University, along with Queens’ University Faculty of Health Sciences and The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. The new hospital in Harar, will serve the eastern part of the country with 15 OR’s and we are helping train the anesthesiology residents in this new program.

Overview

The population of Ethiopia has grown to about 130,000,000 people, served by only about 200 specialist anesthesiology program. With CASIEF’s strong role in supporting the anesthesiology program at Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, it has been apparent that more programs need to be developed across this vast country in order to assist with the massive demand for anesthesiologists. Haramaya University College of Health and Medical Sciences is situated in the Harar area of Ethiopia, 525 km east of Addis Ababa. Until 2020, there were no anesthesiologists and only few ORs running in the existing hospital (staffed by non-physician anesthetists), as well as a separate maternity hospital. A new 1000 bed hospital has recently been constructed, which includes 15 ORs. Haramaya recently partnered with the faculty from the School of Medicine, Queen’s University, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, to assist in the development of three new residency programs, including Oncology, Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology. CASIEF joined the anesthesiology arm of this project, which officially launched in 2021. This year the first cohort of residents graduated, and a new group of PGY 1 residents have joined the program.

CASIEF and Queen’s volunteers have been visiting Haramaya to provide hands-on teaching, and a new Sonosite ultrasound machine and 20 home-built video laryngoscopes have been donated! In addition, we have been moderating regular virtual case management rounds for the residents.