
As the name indicated, the ‘Health City’ is a self-contained medical services delivery area/center which has massing of focused super-specialty hospitals that able to provide tertiary level medical care situated in one geographical location consisting of multiple supporting/auxiliary services to satisfy the needs of the service seekers (i.e. patients, clients and families/care givers) as well as for the service providers. The project focuses patient care and treatment, specialized medical teaching & training, and medical/health researches. The health city concept is an emerging contemporary modality of delivering tertiary level health care as one-stop shopping being practiced in America, Europe and few Asian and Middle East countries.
This proposed project will have the following components:
1) Tertiary level hospital: which can serve the main referral hospital from all over the country, East African countries and beyond. The hospital will have 22 specialty care centers with about 1200 beds which can provide broad advanced health care services by highly qualified medical professionals with specific medical specializations and sub-specializations using state of arts of technologies for medical investigations/diagnosis and treatment and caters to large volume of Patients seeking tertiary level care. The medical services include (but not limited) cancer management, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, plastic surgery, treatment for severe burns, advanced neonatology services, palliative, and other complex medical and surgical interventions. The availability of highly specialized/sup-specialized personnel, of more sophisticated diagnostic technologies, and of more advanced therapeutic technologies that will permit the diagnosis and treatment of increasingly complex conditions.
The specialty centers are listed as follows:-
2) Pharmaceuticals institute: consisting manufacturing plant, import/export and product distribution sub components.
3) Medical education and training institute: will provide long term education programs of specialization & sup-specializations on different medical disciplines using the first project component tertiary level hospital and also will provide short term medical and health related trainings to capacitate the available workforces for the general health services in Ethiopia and to East Africa communities.
4) Research center: will have fully equipped with all required standards and advanced technologies to serve as excellent center for medical and health related researches.
5) Air ambulance services: We will have ambulance planes and ambulance helicopters to transport/transfer patients from one area to the intended hospital within a country (domestic ambulance services)or to repatriate patients who are accompanied by medical staff. We will have fully equipped small size air crafts/ambulance jets and helicopters to transport patients who require intensive care across continents by providing appropriate intensive care services using highly skilled medical specialists on the area of emergency management until the patient arrived the intended hospital for better management. In the field of medical transport logistics, we will have not only air ambulances, but also the fastest transportation vehicle options for a patient, but they’re also able to reach sites that are inaccessible or difficult to access for ground ambulances.
Generally, we will offer a variety of air medical flight services including: private air ambulance, commercial airline stretchers, and medical escorts, neonatal and pediatric medical flights.
6) Auxiliary services: including residencies (for key staffs and from medical education students), standardized hotel service (5 star hotel), malls/supermarkets, cafeterias & restaurants, laundry, parking, etc. services.
7) Project Management center: includes administrative offices for finance & procurement, Human resources development & management, Information management (ICT), quality control, partnership and resource mobilization, legal, and internal audit operations offices.