St Lukes Health Care Foundation, DBA Soddo Christian Hospital

We believe in providing the highest quality of care that can be provided in rural Africa. We leverage medical technology and trained specialists where we can to give the best possible care. We have 120 beds spread out over four wards and an ICU, and we provide a full range of medical, surgical (including orthopedic and general), maternity, and pediatric care. The hospital has an emergency room, outpatient clinic rooms, optometry clinic, and a dental clinic. Our surgical department has five operating rooms with fluoroscopy and laparoscopy available. Our radiology department proudly offers digital x-ray, ultrasound, and a brand new 16-slice CT scanner! The hospital is located in Soddo, a city of roughly 80,000 people in southwestern Ethiopia, about 200 miles (330km) from Addis Ababa. It is the center of the Wolaitta region, which has about 2.5 million inhabitants, and is one of the most populated and impoverished parts of Ethiopia.