ETHIOPIA HEALTH Archives

Does Dr. Tedros Adhanom have the Requisite Qualifications to Become Next WHO DG?

April 22, 2016TesfaNews43 Comments

By Keffyalew Gebremedhin, Eight medical doctors have served the World Health Organization (WHO) as its directors-general, through it the international community, in the post-war world from 1948 to the present, beginning with Dr. B.Chisholm of Canada, and now the incumbent another Canadian Dr. Margaret Chan, with dual citizenship (Chinese, Hong Kong). The only exception in […]

Ethiopia Producing a Generation of Woefully Unqualified Doctors

January 1, 2013October 30, 2016TesfaNews22 Comments

Is Ethiopia producing doctors “who don’t know what they are doing?” By PRI, The pediatrics wing of St. Paul’s Hospital in Addis Ababa is a busy place. Nervous parents move in and out, waiting for their kids to be seen. There aren’t a lot of doctors here, but there is one group of people that seems to […]