Myungsung Christian Medical Center and Myungsung Medical CollegeAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Hospital Website
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www.mcmet.org
www.mmc-edu.net
- Mission
- Myungsung Presbyterian Church, Korea
- Minimum Service Requirement
- Infectious diseases
- Trauma
- Chronic Respiratory illness and cardiovascular diseases
- Acute abdomen and other surgical emergencies
- Labor and gynecological emergencies
About 4% of potential blood donors are positive for HIV. The most common “reportable” disease is TB. There is a high rate of trauma from automobile accidents and construction site accidents.
There are five operating tables in five rooms including an ophthalmological suite. The hospital performs over 3,000 major operations and 5,500 minor operations per year. There is fluoroscopy capability. MCMC offers laparoscopic surgery. Fine needle aspirations are done. There is a portable X-ray in the operating rooms. Surgeries are performed daily and CRNAs provide anesthesia. Surgical services span a broad spectrum of surgical diseases including pediatric, adult, obstetric/ gynecologic, ENT, and orthopedics.
Myungsung Christian Medical Center is a Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons or PAACS program participant www.paacs.net. PAACS has established surgical training programs at Christian hospitals across Africa. PAACS residents rotate working under the surgical sub-specialists. Short-term volunteers in both general surgery and sub-specialties including anesthesia and radiology should understand that teaching rather than clinical work is their primary goal. The curriculum is similar to the United States with both formal lecturing and hands-on clinical teaching. Volunteers should be in direct contact with hospital field staff prior to arrival to prepare for their teaching role.