In Adola, Oromia, our church is building a hospital where faith and medicine work hand in hand: open to everyone, and close to home for families who have waited too long for good care.
Under construction in Adola
Current phase
Finishing, utilities and equipment
The structure is standing. Next, we prepare it to care for patients.
Since 1936 E.C., Adola Debre Salem Medhanialem Ethiopian Orthodox Church has been a spiritual and social cornerstone for our community, nurturing souls and meeting the needs of the people around us. Building a hospital is the next step in that service.
“I was sick, and you looked after me.”
Most high-quality health services are concentrated in Addis Ababa, far from our region. For many families, reaching them is costly or simply impossible.
Patients who do reach a health facility may find it without essential medicines, equipment or trained staff.
Our communities face high maternal and child mortality, infectious diseases and rising chronic illness.
Our answer
A hospital that brings both access and excellence close to home.
Care that is affordable or free for those who need it most, professional standards equal to any in the country, and compassion for the whole person.
A primary care hospital with outpatient and emergency care, a laboratory, a pharmacy and inpatient wards. The structure is standing. Finishing work, utilities and equipment come next.
Architectural design coming soon
We will share a rendering of the finished hospital here.
Top floor
Staircase
Balcony railings
Builders at work
Next, we prepare the building to serve patients.
70%
Done
Four-story structure in place
Next
Finishing, electrical and plumbing
Then
Equipment and opening
When it opens
As it grows
The hospital grows from the same faith that built our church and our elder care center. These are the commitments behind it.
In our society, faith is part of everyday life, and part of healing. Here, modern medicine and spiritual care will work side by side, so every patient is cared for in a place that honors what they believe.
Rooted in the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition. Open to people of every faith.
Each patient is treated as a whole human being, with attention to physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
Care for everyone, regardless of religion, race, gender or background, as our elder care center has done from its first day.
Affordable or free care for those who cannot pay. A place where the poor are not turned away.
Professional standards equal to any in the country, delivered with dignity and love.
Four years ago, the church opened an elderly care center for people who had no one else to care for them. Today it provides food, shelter, clothing, spiritual support and daily care for 50 elders, regardless of religion, race or gender.
It has become a lifeline, and it shows what this community can do together. The hospital grows from the same calling: direct care for the center’s residents is part of its very first phase.
Your support will finish the building, fill it with beds, monitors and laboratory equipment, and open its doors to everyone who needs care.
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Questions about the hospital, partnerships or volunteering? Our official contact details will be published here soon.
Church office
Guji-Borena Liben Hagere Sibket, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
International representatives
Contacts in the US, Europe and across the diaspora will be listed here.
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