State Minister of Health, Dr. Dereje Duguma, who launched a nationwide vaccination campaign under the motto of creating a polio-free world, in Awassa and Gidio Zone, Dilla, Sidama State, said the Ministry of Health is focusing on eradicating polio from the country through regular immunization and vaccination campaigns.
The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Addis Ababa Youth Volunteer Coordination Bureau, launched a summer volunteerism program in the health sector.
Recognized are young people from Addis Ababa who have volunteered at St. Emmanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Alert Center, St. Peter's Specialized Hospital, Tirunesh Beijing Hospital, Yekatit 12 Medical College, Ras Desta Hospital and St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College.
The American government donated 453,600 Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 doses to Ethiopia to help combat the pandemic worldwide.
On the occasion the state minister W/r Seharella Abdulahi announced that this is the fourth round donation, and they have received 453,600 Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 doses. Also, she announced that 504,000 vaccine dose is expected to arrive in the next round.
It was stated that the support for the health of the displaced people and health facilities damaged by the forces will be strengthened and continued.
State Minister of Health, Dr. Dereje Duguma and Director of the Ministry of Maternal and Child Health, Dr. Meseret Zelalem, accompanied by the Mayor of Konbolcha and officials of the Department of Health, visited citizens in the shelters.
Health Minister Dr. Lia Tadesse briefed the media on COVID 19 disease prevalence and vaccination status.
DHIS2 is open-source health information management system. It is developed through global collaboration led by UiO. Ministry of Health uses DHIS2 for collecting and analyzing health data.
The Electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS) is a high priority initiative of the Information Revolution, demonstrating the MOH’s intentions to further utilize technology and data to improve health service delivery, starting at the community level. The eCHIS is the digitized version of the paper based CHIS, one of the backbones of the much successful Ethiopia’s health extension program. The content is now digitized into a mobile platform for use by health extension workers (HEW) around the country.
All sections of the governments have a responsibility to protect public safety and provide emergency relief in a crisis. Therefore national, regional, facility and pre-facility disaster preparedness is most important. It is mandatory to institutionalize a standard emergency and disaster management system by correlating the clinical emergency response with the public health emergency management through creating surge capacity at facilities, interlinkage between facilities which translates to regional capacity.
Trauma, regardless of its economic and health burden on society, has never been given the accordant type of emphasis in our country. It was until the last couple of years that it started to be consider as a major public health concern and much needed attention started to be given to it. The increasing burden of burn and poisoning has not yet been met with a. system that can cope. For these reasons the Ministry of Health recently took the initiative to work on injury preventive mechanisms, timely and effective treatments as well as rehabilitative care to the community.
