Health Care

Our first medical mission to Homacho, Ethiopia, occurred in May and June 2017. Our medical team worked at the clinic with the village doctors for two days. While we were there, we bought an expensive antibiotic for the clinic as well as a battery-operated otoscope and fetal Doppler monitor and provided 120 birthing kits and 250 doses of Erythromycin to the clinic and midwives delivering babies throughout the village.

When we visited Ethiopia in December 2018, we toured a public hospital in Hosanna, which is the largest city nearest to Homacho. On our tour, the director of the hospital showed us a new, two-story emergency room that was under construction. At that time, he explained that the building was expected to be completed in April 2019, but because of budget constraints, they did not have any money to purchase equipment for the facility once it was done.

We worked with HSHS Mission Outreach in Springfield, Illinois. They collect used medical equipment from hospitals around the Midwest and work with organizations like Friends of Homacho to send it to those in need around the globe. Mission Outreach provided all the medical equipment free of charge. We only had to pay the shipping costs. 

After more than a year of work on this project, the shipment finally arrived in Hosanna on October 7, 2020. The shipment included $130,000 worth of medical equipment that will serve both the hospital in Hosanna and the clinic in Homacho.