His Excellency, Nicolas Simard , Ambassador of Canada to Ethiopia, Djibouti, South Sudan and Sudan Visited the Oxygen and other medical gases production plant built and operated by Hawassa University College of Medicine and Health Sciences (HU-CMHS) and had extensive discussions with the senior leaders of the College.
Dr. Fitsum W/Gebriel , Chief executive director , HU-CMHS , mentioned that, in order to complete the Oxygen plant and put in to service special attention was given by Federal Ministry of Health, top management of the University, board members of the hospital and the College's community .
She noted that the hospital with huge catchment referral area beside large number of maternal care unit the number of patients referred for complicated surgeons that need oxygen is increasing while the hospital is thriving to perform at it's level best.
Dr. Fitsum underlined that there are various researches and medical fields can be linked with institution's in Canada and the college's management gave due attention to the visit by His Excellency Canadian Ambassador .
The Academic and Clinical affairs Corporate Director , Dr Zerihun Tesfaye presented the gas system of the hospital and medical oxygen production facilities mentioning that the plant made possible to avoid high cost of oxygen service to the patients through automatic meters installed directly from the factory.
He pointed out that the College preparing a guidelines and working protocols to reach the surrounding health facilities.
Ambassador , Nicolas , mentioned that he visited similar referral hospitals in various African countries and Hawassa University's Comprehensive Specialized Hospital is best structured with committed and confidence full leadership .
He noted that Ethiopia is the second largest health system Collaborator with long term governments relation-ship with Canada, that currently deep-rooted to institutions and people to peoples.
