Spanish NGO to Build Mother, Child Hospital

Cielo 133, a Spanish NGO active in adoption, is to construct a mother and child referral hospital in Addis Abeba at a cost of 15 million euro as a turn-key project and hand it over to the Ministry of Health.

The idea was initiated by the Spanish organisation and presented to Minister Tedros Adhanom (PhD), who gladly accepted it. The hospital will have 240 beds, Tedros said.

The preliminary design of the hospital was done by Cielo 133 itself based on 35,000sqm land. However, the city administration granted the project only 20,000sqm of land in Weyra Sefer in the Kolfe Keranio District.

This led to a reconsideration of the design, which is being handled by Yibrah Architect and Engineering Consult.

The hospital will have five four-storey blocks, according to Yibrah Mehari, manager of the firm. The construction is to be undertaken in four phases, he told Fortune.

However, the ministry will ask for more land, as the 20,000ht will not be enough for the hospital, warned Tedros.

Cielo 133 has an adoption centre at Addis Abeba and a childcare centre in Hossana town in the Hadiya Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State.

The new hospital will be an addition to the existing 37 hospitals in Addis Abeba, five of which are under the Health Bureau, two under NGOs, three under the defence and police forces and the rest privately owned.