2016

German Ambulance car a gift from Witten Town leaves Ayder Referral Hospital - University Mekelle Ethiopia

The chairman of the association Etiopia Witten e.V., the physician Ahmedin Idris, has now been able to announce that the two emergency vehicles donated at the initiative of the association Etiopia-Witten e.V.  by the city of Witten to their partner city Mekelle in Ethiopia have become a complete success. The two vehicles have now been fully equipped with local material and the Ethiopian medical, nursing and technical staff is trained. Within the past 6 months, more than 300 operations with the emergency car have been successfully carried out in the city of Mekelle and the surrounding area. They are the first of their kind to become a model for other cities in Ethiopia, which are now striving to build up a comparable medical rescue service.

This is once again a successful example of cooperative development assistance by the association Etiopia-Witten.

The administration of the Wittmer partner city Mekelle in northern Ethiopia has renamed a street in Mekelle in "Witten Street" out of gratitude for the extensive and good cooperation with the city Witten. This street leads to the Ayder Referral Hospital, which has been supported by the Etiopia-Witten association for a number of years in medical and administrative settings.

The members of the delegation from Mekelle, together with Ahmedin Idris, chairman of the association Etiopia-Witten, present a picture of the future Witten Street in Mekelle to the mayoress of the city Witten Sonja Leidemann on 29.09.2016.

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PIcture from www.lokalkompass.de

On the site of the professional fire brigade Witten, a fire brigade vehicle with turn ladder is handed over to a delegation of the city administration of the partner city Mekelle (Ethiopia).

The one-week 1. Intensive Care Course for nurses in intensive care of Ayder Referral Hospital of the University of Mekelle was a great success. It took place in the hospital from April 18^th to April 23th and May 2nd to May 7th. Ayder Hospital is a 400-bed tertiary care hospital for about 8 million people. The university city of Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia Northern Province, has about 300,000 inhabitants.

The course was led by the retired anesthetist Dr. Reintraut Burmeister-Rother MD. She is since many years active in teaching intensive care medicine including hands on training for physicians and nurses. During her previous stays in the ICU of Ayder Hospital she had realized, that the performance of the dedicated working nursing staff would benefit very much from a high level course in intensive care .

With the support of the Spanish nurse Teresa Pastor, the German intensive care nurse Doris Balke and the American intensive care nutritionist Dr. Judith Randon MD, this course was a huge success. The Participation of the nurses was very active and none of the young men and women missed even for one hour. The result of the final test with a knowledge increase of 100% up to 200% was the occasion to celebrate this with a opulent lunch in a beautiful traditional Ethiopian restaurant in Downtown Mekelle. This was a good place to handover the certificates to the nurses.

A 2^nd refresher course will be held in January 2017 at Ayder Referral Unversity Hospital Mekelle

Ethiopa-Witten is proud to inform:

That its support since 2013 setting up the Heart Catheterization Laboratory in Ayder Referral University Hospital in Mekelle  has now become the only Government Hospital in Ethiopia to perform the first PCI

Report from Tigrai Online, Ethiopian News, May 21, 2016

Ahadu Amlak

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On the morning of the last day of this year German Week in Mekelle the signing ceremony of the documents about the twin towns Mekelle - Ethiopia and Witten - Germany took place in the town hall of Mekelle. The Mayor of Mekelle, Daniel Afessa signed the documents already signed by the Mayor of Witten. During this, the German visitors sang in chorus a traditional German miners song from the Ruhrgebiet "Glück auf der Steiger kommt".

The delegation of members and supporters of Ethiopia Witten Association arrived well after a strenuous night flight from Frankfurt Airport via Addis Abeba in Mekelle. They were warmly welcomed by the Dean of the Medical Faculty of Univeristät Mekelle, Dr. Loko Abraham.

The otorhinolaryngology doctors in the team Etiopia Witten are happy. The medical-instruments company Karl Storz in Tuttlingen donates for the ENT OP in Ayder Hospital Mekelle medical equipment worth over 5,000 euros.

The home of Karl STORZ medical equipment company in Tuttlingen Germany