Ethiopia
Expected Completion: Early 2008
Specialty: Pediatric Orthodpedic and Pediatric Plastic Reconstruction
The CURE Ethiopia Children's Hospital (CECH) is a pediatric orthopedic teaching hospital that will serve physically disabled people in Addis Ababa. CECH will fill a critical need for an orthopedic and trauma care residency program in Ethiopia. The hospital, currently under construction in Addis Ababa, will be a state-of-the-art 60 bed hospital complex that will provide modern medical and surgical care to physically disabled children in Ethiopia.
The hospital will have a dual focus on pediatric orthopedics and pediatric plastic reconstruction. The hospital will treat disabilities such as cleft lip and palate, clubfoot, burn contractures, and other physical disabilities. In its first year of operation more than 2,500 surgeries will be performed and 15,000 outpatients are expected to be treated at CECH.
CECH will bring modern, up-to-date standards and equipment such as ECG machines, pulse oximetry, anesthetic gas monitoring, and C-arm mobile X-ray units. There will also be training for Ethiopians in the use and maintenance of this equipment. CECH will introduce advanced American diagnostic techniques using ultrasound, enhanced X-ray, and laboratory services which are currently unavailable in Ethiopia.
Partnership with Smile Train
Since the fall of 2006, in collaboration with Smile Train, CURE has developed a cleft lip and cleft palate surgical training programs in most of CURE's hospitals worldwide. These programs have been piloted in Afghanistan and in the Dominican Republic. CURE will train 20 surgeons in the correction of cleft lip/palate surgery each year.
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