About Our Vision for Ethiopia

Our Vision

To improve the health outcomes of children and pregnant women across Ethiopia through increased access to pediatric and maternal/fetal health services and research programs.

Our Mission

To facilitate building a state of the art comprehensive Children's Hospital aimed at providing high level medical, surgical, and research services and facilities to children and pregnant mothers in Ethiopia. This hospital would:

• Facilitate and conduct research activities aimed at improving the health and quality of living for all Ethiopian children and pregnant women.
• Embrace digital technology to help provide up to date care to children and pregnant women in Ethiopia.
• Provide voluntary counseling and testing services to children and pregnant women across Ethiopia and in neighboring countries.
• Engage the community in the development, design and ongoing support of the hospital, to help facilitate the sustainability of the hospital and its programs.
• Work in close relationship with the national public health services and Office of the Ministry of Health Ethiopia to ensure best outcomes for our community.

Our Target Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries of the project will be pregnant women and children (ages 0-18 years) living in Ethiopia, with a priority focus on economically disadvantaged communities.

Our Vision for Ethiopia's mission is to build a Children's Hospital in Ethiopia that will contribute to the foundation of pediatric care, improving the health and development of all children and pregnant mothers. This facility would provide accessible and affordable state of the art healthcare services, with the capacity to train pediatric health care providers from around the country.

By improving access to basic pediatric health services for Ethiopian youth and their families we hope to improve the overall care and survival rates of children inflicted by common, preventable and treatable illness and injuries such as infectious diseases, respiratory illnesses, malnutrition, trauma, and more.

Providing high quality state of the art tertiary level care facilities that address complex medical and surgical problems for Ethiopian children is of urgent and strategic importance for the future of the country. OVEthiopia believes that building a free-standing Children's Hospital could help advance the health of all children in Ethiopia in a sustainable way.

We believe that the morbidity and mortality from trauma and injury would be dramatically decreased in Ethiopia by the presence of a Children's Hospital. From the improved success of the procedures to the decreased rates of super-infections, studies show that procedures at children's hospitals are generally safer and have fewer complications and lower mortality rates than those done on kids in adult hospital settings.

The institute of medicine research indicated that medication errors are the most common cause of harm in the pediatric population where medication administered within adult settings that manage pediatric patients. According to the studies, 1 in 10 hospitalized children in adult settings had some kind of medication error and noted that as high as 35% of the cases were serious or life threatening.

Community Health Programs

In addition to providing hospital based services, the Children's Hospital that Our Vision for Ethiopia builds will work closely with the public health ministry to focus on supporting primary care and public health care through a variety of programs. With the acknowledgement that health of an individual, family and the community at large are dependent on various cultural, social, environmental, political and economical factors, local community involvement will be an integral part of the health education model for primary care.