Israel’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, Doron M. Grossman, donated fifty thousand dollars worth of medical equipment to Addis Ababa’s Black Lion Hospital on Tuesday, the Addis Tribune reports. The donation was originally offered to the hospital last January by Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom (Likud), during his visit there.
Dr. Zeru Gebre-Mariam, Medical Director of the Black Lion Hospital said the equipment would be useful for treating patients suffering from heart attacks, breathing problems and those in comas. "It will go a long way in the treatment of lung and heart diseases," he said.
Israeli cooperation with the Black Lion Hospital, one of the oldest state hospitals in Ethiopia, started nearly a decade ago when Israel provided the hospital with surgical intensive care monitors.
Israel maintains good relations with Ethiopia and has been providing the country with aid in various forms since the sixties. In May 1991, Israel paid Ethiopia $35 million in cash for permission to fly nearly 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Ethiopia remains a strategic and increasingly important ally in the region – whereas Israel once maintained ambassadors in most of the thirty-nine sub-Saharan states, it now has embassies in only nine of them: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Angola.
Dr. Zeru Gebre-Mariam, Medical Director of the Black Lion Hospital said the equipment would be useful for treating patients suffering from heart attacks, breathing problems and those in comas. "It will go a long way in the treatment of lung and heart diseases," he said.
Israeli cooperation with the Black Lion Hospital, one of the oldest state hospitals in Ethiopia, started nearly a decade ago when Israel provided the hospital with surgical intensive care monitors.
Israel maintains good relations with Ethiopia and has been providing the country with aid in various forms since the sixties. In May 1991, Israel paid Ethiopia $35 million in cash for permission to fly nearly 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Ethiopia remains a strategic and increasingly important ally in the region – whereas Israel once maintained ambassadors in most of the thirty-nine sub-Saharan states, it now has embassies in only nine of them: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Angola.