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Jan 30 , 2021

COVID-19: The Price of a Clean Bill of Health

Last month, a very unlikely Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) patient walked through Yerer Hospital's halls. Yerer was the third private hospital licensed to provide treatment to the victims of the pandemi...

Jan 30 , 2021

Ministry Lifts Price Caps for Private COVID-19 Healthcare

In an updated manual for the regulation of private healthcare, the Ministry of Health has lifted previously imposed price caps on the provision of COVID-19 healthcare in hospitals. The amendment from...

Jan 31 , 2021

COVID-19 Makes the Case for Private Sector Reform

The World Bank Group (WBG) has released its ritualistic report on global economic prospects recently. Broadly, it talks about the continued effect of COVID-19 and the resulting growth prospects that a...

Jan 23 , 2021

AU Avails COVID-19 Vaccine for $10 a Dose

The African Union (AU) and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have announced that African nations will pay between three and 10 dollars a dose to access 270 million COVID-19 shots secured ea...

Jan 16 , 2021

JICA Buffers COVID-19 Response

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has donated water supply spare parts and other basic hygiene materials worth 1.4 million Br to the Bahir Dar Water Supply & Sewerage Service. Up t...

Oct 13 , 2020

IMF Foresees Over 90m Falling into Extreme Poverty Worldwide due to COVID-19

The global pandemic is set to cause a disturbing slide to extreme poverty and inequality, leading over 90 million people across the world fall below 1.90 dollars daily income, the International Moneta...

Aug 8 , 2020

HEALTH FALLOUT

On any day, the waiting hall of Black Lion Hospital is not a sight for the faint-hearted. Patients seeking treatment find themselves marooned on multi-seat waiting chairs in dangerously close quarters...

Aug 8 , 2020

Essential Healthcare Continuity During COVID-19: A Juggling Act

Shemsu Hussien was transported in an ambulance from his hometown in Worabe, Silte Zone to Addis Abeba while he was fasting for Ramadan in June. The 38-year-old farmer who lives with his wife in thi...

Aug 8 , 2020

Income Inequality, Poverty Fuels Social Discontent, Warns Credit Agency

Ethiopia's sovereign credit rating received a negative outlook by Moody's Investors Service, a credit rating firm, due to the country's existing fiscal and external peril, compounded by the Novel Coro...

Aug 8 , 2020

Private Healthcare Facilities Start COVID-19 Treatment

Private healthcare service providers can now provide treatment to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, according to a mandatory manual drafted by the Ministry of Health. The manual, already in us...

Jun 13 , 2020

COVID-19 Worsens the Digital Divide, Delivers Blow to Women's Health

As soon as the first COVID-19 case was reported in Ethiopia, I started working from home in Addis Abeba, because the company I was working at insisted on it. Our internet bills were paid, and we were...

Jun 7 , 2020

Hoteliers, Employees on the Outs as COVID-19 Proliferates

Driving for the hotel industry for seven years, he has spent half of those years in the service of his current employer, Monarch Hotel. Last month, the driver, who requested anonymity, received 50...

Jun 7 , 2020

Transport Ministry Starts COVID-19 Safety Inspection

The Transport Ministry has deployed a team of professionals tasked with ensuring the consistent implementation of health standards across the transport sector of the country. The professionals were...

May 31 , 2020

Making Up for Lost Time, Learning in the Midst of COVID-19

Many students across the country have had to reacquaint themselves with what school means during the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. For some students in the nation's capital, classes have cont...

May 31 , 2020

Ethiopia Grapples with Flood Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

On a Friday afternoon, April 24, 2020, the bodies of two individuals, 19 and 45, were discovered in Hamdael area, Dire Dawa City, following a flood caused by heavy rainfall. The bodies were found by l...

May 31 , 2020

COVID-19, As Much Illness of Mind as Body

Recently, I received a text from a friend living on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. She reached out to me to ask for advice on what I thought were the best ways to resume social interaction without expo...

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