Ethiopia
Ethiopia‘s health care system is in crisis. More than half the country has no access to health care and, of those that do, only a small percentage lives within a two-hour walk of a health care facility.
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Preventable and treatable diseases such as cholera, river blindness, yellow fever, dengue, hepatitis and typhoid fever kill thousands annually.
One out of every 10 Ethiopian children dies before their fifth birthday. Half of those die from diarrhea. Poor nutrition and infections contribute to one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.
To make matters worse, at its current rate of growth, Ethiopia’s population is expected to double within the next 20 years causing an increasingly massive burden on already overstretched medical services.
To date, A Glimmer of Hope has invested almost $4 million in new health posts and clinics throughout Ethiopia providing improved access to care to approximately one million people.
It has also invested heavily in the rehabilitation of a regional base hospital in the remote township of Dembi Dollo. The hospital is now a main center for medical treatment in Southwest Ethiopia recording as many as 45,000 patient visits each year.