The geographic location is about N 7 33' 04.09", E 37 50' 48.10". Next are exterior photos that I took.
The main buildings
Dr. Helina Melis. The emergency building is to the right (blue roof in the satellite image). The taxi and bush obscure a view of the downward slope roadway. It is of very decayed concrete such that half of it is covered only by coarse rebar.
This is the emergency building for incoming patients. At the recommendation of my team leader, I was taken upstairs to the lab by Dr. Melis, bypassing local patients, and a sample of my blood and of my stool were taken for analysis. The blood test showed the beginning stage of malaria. The stool sample showed nothing, likely because I had taken Cipro days earlier after having Traveller's Diarrhea. The crowded lab seemed decades out of date compared to American standards. I did see two microscopes and assumed that the lab people had much experience detecting malaria. So Dr. Melis arranged for me to get doses of Chloroquine and Primaquine to take over the next couple weeks. That was effective as determined by a followup blood sample taken at an excellent Colorado hospital weeks after my return home. This diverted me from the hospital tour being given to the rest of our group. So most of the following photos were taken by others.
hallways
nursing station, exam room?
digital X-ray unit
CT scanner?, supplies
hall to delivery room. I was told that there are not enough nurses for the number of patients giving birth, so the death rate is significant.
ICU bed
ICU monitors
ICU sign. Can you read the death rate?
sign
Our nurse Sylvia Baker, our leader Rev. Dr. Tilahun Mendedo president of Master Builders Center (www.mbcnow.org), Dr. Yidnekachew Dedachew the head of this hospital
contact information for those two doctors at the Hossana Hospital.