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News: Ethiopian becomes first innovator shortlisted for Africa Prize 2021 entrepreneurial innovators shaping the continent

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Addis Abeba, February 18/2021 – Ethiopian national Pazion Cherinet, who developed Orbit Health, a digital health platform which manages and stores patient data, including appointments, diagnoses, tests, doctors’ notes and prescriptions, became the first innovator from Ethiopia to ever be selected for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

News: Vital Strategies opens office in Addis Abeba to help strengthen Ethiopia’s Public Health Systems

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Addis Abeba, February 10/ 2021 Vital Strategies, a leading global health organization which works with governments to design solutions to some of the world’s most challenging health problems, today announced the opening of a new office in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, Vital Strategies said in a statement sent to Addis Standard.

Letter of concern from Alatyon General Hospital on CT-Scan handed to the Hospital by Ethio Lease

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Alatyon General Hospital (AGH) co-hosted the event with Ethio Lease, and as a major host, invited all government bodies, senior citizens and religious leaders, NGO, VSO, and community leaders to celebrate the coming of CT-scan and to amplify the challenges associated with Ethiopian birr ever-increasing inflation as well as to request the government to intervene to offset the unexpected extra money the AGH is forced to pay.

News: Five regions see Cholera outbreaks; more than 50 die in December alone

A Médecins Sans Frontières staffer prepares an oral cholera vaccine. Photo by: Corinne Baker / MSF

Addis Abeba, January 12/2021 – Some 1,873 cases and 53 deaths were identified in eight Woredas in Dawro Zone, and two Woredas of Bench Sheko Zone by the last week of December 2020, UNOCHA said.

Response interventions are ongoing in Gambella, SNNPR, Sidama, Oromia, and Afar Regions which have registered active cases of cholera. Oral Cholera Vaccination (OCV) was completed in three Woredas.

EU Support for Logistics, Health Suffers Conflict Consequences

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