Haramaya University Hospital Health Center
Local Partner Director: Professor Augustin Sesay
Areas Served: Eastern Ethiopia including Dire Drwa, Harar, Jijga and nearby communities
Mission: To produce competitive graduates in diverse fields of study, undertake rigorous, problem solving and cutting-edge research, disseminate knowledge and technologies, and provide demand-driven and transformative community services.
In Ethiopia, there is a great need for medical services at the Haramaya University Hospital Health Center, which operates several hospitals and clinics in eastern Ethiopia, as well as a teaching hospital to train young men and women to become doctors. The focus of the hospital system is general medicine, however it also offers specialties that small clinics cannot.
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