St. Paul's Hospital, Ethiopia

The St. Paul Millennium Medical College's Hospital in Addis Ababa is the largest hospital in Ethiopia.^[1][2][3]

St. Paul's Hospital, Ethiopia
Geography
Location	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Coordinates	9°2′52″N 38°43′41″E
Organisation
Affiliated university	St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	700+
History
Opened	Haile Selassie I in 1969
Links
Website	sphmmc.edu.et
Other links	List of hospitals in Ethiopia

History

The hospital was built by Emperor Haile Selassie I in 1969 with the help of the Evangelical Church in Germany. It aimed to serve the poor.

A medical college was formed in 2007.

Capacity

The hospital has 350 beds sees an annual average of 300,000. It has a catchment population of more than 5 million.^{[citation needed]}

The hospital has 1200 clinical and non-clinical staff^{[citation needed]}

Departments

There are over 13 departments which include:

• Forensic medicine and toxicology
• Internal medicine
• Neurology
• General Surgery
• ENT
• Psychiatry
• Ophthalmology
• Dentistry
• Maxillofacial Surgery)
• Radiology
• Dermatology
• Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Pediatrics
• Biomedicine
• Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
• Neurosurgery
• Orthopediacs and Traumatology
• Neurosurgery

Medical School

Main article: St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College

A medical school, the Millennium Medical College was opened in 2007 to commemorate the new Millennium era of the Ethiopian Calendar (which is 7 years behind the Gregorian Calendar). Students admitted from each region of the country are required to pass written and oral (VIVA) entrance exams.

The school was established by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health with Gordon Williams of the department of urology at the Hammersmith Hospital in London as the first dean. He became the medical director of the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa.

The enrollment is 40% female.^{[citation needed]} There are links with University of Addis Ababa, Jimma University, Tulane University and University of Michigan as well as the Open University. The school's provost is Mesfin Araya, a psychiatrist.