Emebet Girma

Consultant Ophthalmologist

Hawassa University Referral Hospital, Hawassa, SNNPR, Ethiopia.

Latest Contribution

Photo showing operating theatre in Rwanda.

Eyes on Rwanda: Lessons from an international ophthalmology experience

2 October 2025 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Glaucoma

On the 26 February 2025, I travelled to Rwanda on the invitation of a former Belfast trainee, Michael Mikhail. Michael is now one of only two vitreoretinal (VR) surgeons in Rwanda, a country with a population of 14 million. Born...

Students, soccer and slit-lamps in Ethiopia: a VISION 2020 LINK

1 August 2014 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Wachemo University campus. The Ethiopian Government is well aware of the brain drain amongst health workers and, to compensate, is training huge numbers of medical students, nurses and health officers in universities like Wachemo, a massive new University near Hosanna...