The Ayder Referral Hospital commenced rendering its referral and non-referral services in 2008 to the 8 million population in its catchment areas of the Tigray, Afar and Southeastern parts of the Amhara Regional States in Ethiopia. It provides a broad range of medical services to both in and out patients of all age groups. As such, the Hospital can be designated as the most advanced medical facility, by all accounts, in not only the Northern part of the country but in Africa and that it stands as the second largest hospital in the nation. 

 

With a total inpatient bed capacity of about 500 beds in four major departments and other specialty units, the Ayder Referral Hospital is used as the main teaching hospital for the College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University. Having above 55 specialist physicans in the various areas of medical specializations and fairly adequate numbers of all the other health professionals constituting the health care team, the Hospital is now emerging as a shining hot spot for advanced medical care and treatment in the Northern parts of Ethiopia.

 

With the day-by-day rising patient flow that has already exceedd 100,000 per year, the Ayder Referral Hospital has made remarkable achievements in equipping itself with advanced medical equipments, supplies and facilities over the last four years. The recently commissed imaging equipments such as CT-Scan, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and cardiac catheterization lab unit heralded the launching of Specialty level service in the hospital, the later being the only of its kind in public facilities in the country. Frequently patients travel hundreds of miles and across national borders for consultation so that his referral area spans to all of Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Somaliland, Kenya , East Africa, and the Middle East. 

 

Online consultation via text questions, phone consultation, email consultation, and arrangement for transfer to patients to Ethiopia for advanced neurosurgical treatment is provided by Professor Tony Magana. Doctor Tony attended Texas A&M University and received honors in undergraduate work before attending Harvard Medical School. His neurosurgical training was at the University of Miami School of Medicine. 

Located in Mekele,the teaching hospital is the largest hospital in the Tigray Region and the second largest hospital in Ethiopia. It is one of only a few referral hospitals in Ethiopia.