The Importance Of Medical Education In Ethiopia

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lessen absolute poverty and food insecurity for a predominantly rural-based population. Since Ethiopia have a large pool of unskilled labor, agricultural growth can relieve the growing unemployment problem on the one hand and increase in agricultural income on the other hand. A ‘Poverty focused’ economic development policy has best chance of success if it is agricultural-led, or if it is based on increasing agricultural productivity that cause in food security and the reduction in absolute poverty.
So to say, the weather and the government which owns the land and they helps them by fertilizing. When the rains fail, there very survival depends on fooding from abroad. To bring life under Ethiopia’s sluggish agriculture sector, the then Prime …show more content…

New pathway to medical education in Ethiopia includes 27 public and six private medical schools as of today it is very low and this number cannot execute the necessity of the country. Ethiopia wants to enlarge the number of medical schools to increase the enrollees in the existing medical schools to provide better medical services according to need and demand. The new track of training doctors is named as New Medical Education Initiative track to fulfill the gap by establishing 11 new universities and two teaching hospitals (Consultants). The aim of the new medical education initiative therefore is to educate medical doctors sufficient and professionally skilled to provide quality care services to meet the demand of the nation. The Ministry of Health in Ethiopia initiated to recruiting foreign specialist Doctors and capacity building both in infrastructure and faculty program to achieve this goal. To attain this goal the Ethiopian Ministry to health recruiting the Indian experts and evidently initiating the categories and Roles and responsibilities throw term of …show more content…

What makes the news applicable for India is that the Overseas Infrastructure Alliance (OIA) India Care Centre is run by the ophthalmologists from India skilled at Sankara Nethralaya, India’s best known not-for-profit eye hospital in Chennai. A Public-Private Partnership between the Ethiopian government and Overseas Infrastructure Alliance (OIA), the hospital by now gets more than 100 patients a day, with the walk-ins divided between people needing prescription glasses and those needing surgery for glaucoma and cataract.
Dr Kesetebirhan said that super tertiary health centres such as this one not just bring quality care to Ethiopia but will also train Ethiopian doctors. The hospital’s mandate is to have 20% treatment free of cost, 50% at concessional rates and the rest on full charge. Since its soft launch in September, the 15- bedded hospital-almost all eye surgeries are day procedures that do not require hospital stay- is already on its way to become a medical tourist hub for East

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