Doctors with Africa CUAMM is present in Ethiopia, in the Amhara region, with a humanitarian intervention to support local communities and displaced populations to guarantee health and nutritional services in response to the serious crisis caused by the conflict in the country, with a project supported by the World Health Organisation.
The commitment continues with a second and new project, “Integrated assistance and resilience support interventions for displaced populations and surrounding communities in conflict-affected areas of Amhara Regional State, North Shewa and Oromia Special Zone”, financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, in consortium with COOPI and Enhanced Rural Self Help Association, which were present at the opening event together with representatives of the health department of the North Shewa region and Debre Birhan, as well as the health directors of some of the facilities involved in the programme.
The focus is on restoring and rehabilitating urgent and essential nutrition and health services to enable displaced people and host communities to live in dignified conditions. CUAMM will work on the one hand to rehabilitate two health facilities that were severely damaged and looted during the conflict, and on the other hand to improve the provision of health and medical services. This will be achieved by focusing on reproductive health, maternal and child health, major communicable diseases, training health personnel also on gender-based violence and services for mental health and psycho-social support.
During the presentation of the project, Riccardo Buson, Country manager for CUAMM in Ethiopia, spoke, renewing the commitment of the team organisation in Debre Birhan to continue to provide essential health services for the vulnerable groups most affected by the conflict, thanking the local authorities for their renewed confidence, and hoping to work together again to strengthen relations in the area and to foster the impact of the intervention.
