Ethiopia: The Ailing State of Health Care in Ethiopia's State-Run Hospitals: Who Takes the Blame?

"You have to apologize to the health professionals as we believe that you disrespected the professionals and the improvements made in the health sector," reads a letter written in Amharic on 3 July, 2017, and was sent to the national broadcaster, Ethiopian Broadcasting Service (EBS). The letter was written by the Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA) in response to a segment aired on EBS by a talk show host who took the liberty to "disparage the professional integrity of medical practitioners" in hospitals in Addis Abeba.

On his Sunday night show, aired on 21 May, 2017, talk show host Seifu Fantahun talked about recent trends by medical doctors in Ethiopia who "simply refer" their patients to go abroad for better treatments when they can provide one at home; he went on asserting that many patients don't believe what a single doctor tells them, a remark which troubled the management at EMA.

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