Addressing a Critical Need: Solar Power for The Bachuma District Hospital
The Bachuma District Hospital is located in the town of Bachuma in the West Omo Zone (WOZ) of southwestern Ethiopia. The hospital provides labor and delivery services to pregnant women who live in surrounding communities. Recently, the hospital began providing emergency obstetric care, i.e. caesarian sections, to pregnant women in distress. In fact, the hospital is the only medical facility in the WOZ, home to 700,000 people, that is able to provide women in the Zone with this critical lifesaving service. Improvements Already Made When we first visited the hospital in 2016, it was just an empty concrete shell of… Read More »Addressing a Critical Need: Solar Power for The Bachuma District Hospital