Post-Graduate Students Training at Edna Hospital

Posted on Jun 4, 2013 in Hospital News | 0 comments Edna Adan University Hospital is pleased to welcome post-graduate medical students from Amoud University in Boroma. The students, who recently received their medical degrees from Amoud University, are part of Somaliland’s first Master-level medical training program. The program is a joint effort between Amoud University and SomDev and allows young doctors to continue their studies in the area...
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Dr. Eve Bruce Discusses her time at Edna Hospital

Posted on Feb 22, 2013 in Blog | 5 comments By Dr. Eve Bruce, February 21, 2013 I had read the statistics. We all have. I knew about the problems and the need. What I did not know was how generous the people are with their loving kindness ~ and their laughter. Awakening the first morning in Hargeisa at the Edna Adan Ismail Hospital to the sound of the Muezzin Call to Prayer, I peaked out the window where I sleep in the hospital....
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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Posted on Feb 21, 2013 in Hospital News | 13 comments A little story about how things get done. In Somaliland. And on the Internet. At Edna Hospital, we have been facing a problem of having too many newborn babies with breathing difficulties and those who are premature. As many as six infants occupy our our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at one time, but we have only one incubator, which is both unsafe for the babies and un-professional but we...
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Job Posting – Faculty Dean

Posted on Jan 30, 2013 in Job Opening | 0 comments Edna Adan University is looking for a qualified applicant for the position of Faculty of Nursing/ Midwifery & Public Health Dean in Hargeisa, Somaliland The applicant will be expected to be the executive head of the faculty concerned acting as the academic leader; s/he will be responsible for creating and implementing faculty strategic goals. The successful applicant will be responsible for...
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2012: A Full Year with no Maternal Deaths

Posted on Jan 10, 2013 in Blog, Hospital News | 17 comments The following article is written by Penny Armstrong to commemorate an entire year at Edna Hospital without any Maternal Deaths: The year 2012 has come to an end at the Edna Hospital and, thankfully, this is the first year that the hospital reports no maternal deaths. The statistics have been compiled. In and of themselves they are impressive, but it is the stories behind the statistics that...
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Somaliland: An Epic 4000 Kms Journey on Foot for Edna Hospital

Posted on Jan 7, 2013 in Blog, Hospital News | 16 comments Here is an article from the Somalilandsun celebrating the arrival in Hargeisa of Christopher Stansfield, who walked from Cairo in support of Edna Hospital. • “Yes I have indeed reached my final destination. It’s been a gruelling four months and couldn’t have asked for a warmer welcome from Edna and everyone here at the hospital in Hargeisa. After seeing the hospital with my...
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Year End Newsletter 2012

Posted on Dec 17, 2012 in Edna Adan, Hospital News, Somaliland | 3 comments 2012 has been another busy year which also saw the graduation of our first 21 midwives who obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Midwifery. As always, training of health workers remains our priority because without competent health workers, patients cannot be looked after as they should. For this reason, we have launched the Edna Adan University where 200 students have registered with us to...
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Our Biggest Graduation Ever

Posted on Oct 22, 2012 in Hospital News | 7 comments On the 20th of October, we had the biggest ever number of students to graduate from our School. We graduated 139 students who consisted of Diploma Level Pharmacists and Laboratory Technicians, Certificate Level Laboratory Technicians and 15 General Nurses who graduated from a one-year course of Critical Care Nursing. The event was held at the Maansoor Hotel and was attended by the Director...
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21 Midwives Awarded Bachelor of Science Degrees

Posted on Sep 16, 2012 in Hospital News | 6 comments “Today was a big day in my life and a big day for Midwives and a big day for Somaliland! “My daughters – 21 of them! – graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Midwifery. “The President of Somaliland and other dignitaries were there for the total of 640 students who were graduating from Hargeisa University. Our sincere gratitude goes to the Friends of the Edna...
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Vote Now – Help get Edna Hospital an Ambulance

Posted on Aug 24, 2012 in Hospital News | 10 comments Edna Hospital, as you may be aware, is badly – urgently! – in need of a new ambulance. The old one is so unreliable that it cannot be sent outside of Hargeisa. When a life-and-death emergency threatens the life of a mother and her newborn baby, the hospital needs to be able to provide transportation wherever it is needed. Somebody is giving away a Ford Ranger and Edna has her mind set...
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Mothers Day 2012 Newsletter

Posted on May 5, 2012 in Hospital News | 0 comments Edna Adan Hospital was 10 years old on the 9th of March, 2012. During the past 10 years we delivered over 12,000 babies and treated over 14,000 patients. The achievement that we are most proud of is we have trained over 700 students, many of them in nursing and midwifery but also belonging to other disciplines such as laboratory technology and pharmacy technicians. Statistics $2000 is what we...
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International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Posted on May 3, 2012 in Hospital News | 3 comments We at Edna Hospital have this week been host to team of doctors from International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) who are training 24 nurses and midwives in the use of ultrasound. This will contribute to saving countless lives. The team covered topics from How to Optimize Use of the Ultrasound, Early Pregnancy, Ectopic Pregnancy, Basic Fetal Measurements and The 6...
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Friends of Edna 12th Anniversary

Posted on Dec 22, 2011 in Hospital News | 0 comments A special ‘Thank You’ to the Friends of the Edna Adan Hospital on the occasion of the 12th Anniversary of the formation of the Friends of the Edna Adan Hospital who have been our longest and strongest supporters, even before the hospital was opened in 2002. We all remember when in 2000, the hospital was still under construction and just a shell with no roof, no doors and no windows....
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Year End Newsletter 2011

Posted on Dec 17, 2011 in Edna Adan, Hospital News, Somaliland | 3 comments 2011 has been another year when once again, the Edna Adan Hospital was blessed with so many new developments as well as new friends. As our friends know, Edna started out as a Maternity hospital but in 2011 we’ve seen many new services and procedures that have changed the lives of people in Somaliland. Here are some of the examples of the 514 operations performed since January, 2011: 185...
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“Tiger” Goes Home

Posted on Nov 11, 2011 in Hospital News | 0 comments Two weeks ago, we posted to our Facebook page the touching story of a premature baby boy, affectionately nicknamed “Tiger,” for his toughness. Tiger was given little chance of survival. And yet, one day after another, he did manage to survive. In that first message, Edna shared photos along with this message, “We call him him ‘Tiger’ because he was born prematurely...
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100 New Graduates!

Posted on Oct 27, 2011 in Hospital News | 0 comments Edna Adan, the teaching staff, the volunteers – and, basically, everybody in the whole of Somaliland – is very proud to announce the graduation of 100 newly-trained pharmacists and laboratory technicians. We’ve added a new photo gallery to commemorate the event. New Photo Gallery of Graduation Recommend on FacebookTweet about it...
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Vive La France – Water!!

Posted on Sep 11, 2011 in Blog, Hospital News | 5 comments As you may know, access to water has long been a pressing concern for Edna. She has often spoken of this as being her single biggest challenge. Edna is deeply, deeply grateful to France for having funded this months-long effort, which has now met with success. During the past four months, we have been in labour with our water well drilling effort which we started with kind support from France....
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Newly-Graduated Doctors for Somaliland

Posted on Aug 6, 2011 in Blog, Hospital News | 7 comments Edna cried with happiness upon the graduation of these two former Edna Hospital nurses from medical school. They are among Somaliland’s newest (and finest!) doctors. These two young women first graduated from the Edna Hospital school of Midwifery and then were trained by the Hospital as Nurses. The two showed such a lot of promise that the Edna Hospital then sponsored them through Medical...
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Video: Hospital’s Ever-Expanding Mission

Posted on Apr 29, 2011 in Hospital News | 0 comments “Originally intended to be a small, normal maternity facility…” In this video, Edna Adan relates how the mission of the hospital expanded from the original goal of serving expectant mothers. More than 10,000 babies have now been born at the Edna Hospital. In addition, the hospital treats everything from snake bite to war wounds. Turned out, there were not enough trained nurses,...
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Saving Lives with Ultrasound

Posted on Mar 30, 2011 in Hospital News | 0 comments There is a training program in progress now at the Edna Adan University Hospital. Students are learning how to make use of Ultrasound machines in order to better anticipate when there will likely be problems with a delivery. ISUOG Outreach has been working with Edna for months now, planning this training. Edna says of the project, “The teams arrived and started training as soon as they...
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Recent Achievements at Edna Hospital

Posted on Mar 19, 2011 in Hospital News | 0 comments Here is a summary, provided by Edna Adan, of some of the highlights of these past few months: 1. After the operating theatre was opened, we had the visit of surgeons from Kijabe hospital who performed the first operations in the new facilities equipped with supplies received from the Fistula Foundation and Direct Relief. Among the operations performed were seven children with hydrocephalus who...
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