PEOPLE TO PEOPLE U.S.A Education Mission, in collaboration with St. Tekle Haimanot Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Ottawa, Canada, has provided academic materials to pupils at Kelewan and Rekrek primary schools in the Afar region who are in need due to the recent catastrophic war damage in northern Ethiopia. PEOPLE TO PEOPLE U.S.A has provided: […]
PEOPLE TO PEOPLE U.S.A in collaboration with HealthCare Alliance provided Medical Equipment support to Dessie Comprehensive Hospital on 17th of October 2022. Medical equipment supplied to the Hospital was Bone Drill with backup battery CANNULATED, Pneumatic Tourniquet, External fixator Set, and Wound plaster. Dr. Haimanot, head of Dessie Hospital, has received donations.
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Dear Prof Enawgaw Glad to inform you that P2P has been selected as Best Partner of the Year (21/22) by the BDU-CMHS Senate Mandate in its meeting held on July 13/2022.We are proud to have such a partner committed to realizing a Triangular Partnership, networking of Heath professional diasporas to BDU-CMHS/TGSH, and overall North-South collaboration
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In the Spotlight Section of this issue, we present the profile of none other than Dr. Electron Kebebew. He is an accomplished clinician and medical researcher of the first caliber. We were hoping to carry a full email interview on his illustrious career. However, despite repeated attempts on our part, and due to his busy
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Kebede Begna, MD Rochester, Minnesota As the saying goes “Prevention is better than cure” among one of the proven methods in preventing human maladies, colon cancer screening comes at the forefront. When I think of colorectal cancer, one person comes to my mind, the untimely death of one of the professors from one of the
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Mulugeta Gebregziabher, PhD Professor and Vice Chair Department of Public Health Sciences Medical University of South Carolina E-mail: gebregz@musc.edu Introduction: An electronic medical record (EMR) is the systematized collection of electronically-stored demographics and health information (e.g., medical history, medications, test results, billing data, etc.) on patients in a digital format [1]. EMR systems are designed to store data
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Abebe Haregewoin, MD, Ph. D. Maryland, USA The scourge of “festal” aka plastic bags in Ethiopia and Africa Thousands of plastic factories all over the world and in Ethiopia are producing tons of plastic bags, which are very popularly and increasingly used by the Ethiopian people for shopping purposes because of its ease, cheap value
Anteneh Habte, MD Virginia, USA The history of pain and suffering is as old as mankind itself. Prior to the advent of antibiotics in the early 20th century, most illnesses were invariably brief and fatal and the focus of medical care was primarily symptom relief. The epidemiological transition to a gradual and prolonged decline with a
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Zelalem H. Mekuria DVM, PhD. Post-doctoral Scholar, School of Veterinary Medicine Louisianan State University, Baton Rouge, LA zmekuria1@lsu.edu History has it, that infectious diseases spared no country, social order or religious groups. The sheer magnitude sickness, suffering and deaths as a result were difficult to measure. Writers, philosophers and elites of the past have sampled
The purpose of a Newsletter is typically to disseminate information on the activities of an organization, in this case that of People to People (P2P), Inc. While this remains to be the central mission of P2P e-Health Newsletter, it will also entertain articles on topical health issues in its various “sections.” The Newsletter is envisioned
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