Ethiopian medical journal
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Ethiopian medical journal · Jul 2011
Status of radiological services in Addis Ababa public hospitals.
The availability and quality of radiological service in the developing countries are generally poor. Ethiopia is one of the countries where overall health service has been compromised by inadequate & poorly maintained infrastructure and scarcity of health professionals. Radiological service is a resource intensive unit in a hospital and most developing countries radiological service is expected to be poor or may not be available at all. However, there is no study conducted to assess the radiological service in Ethiopia. ⋯ This study verifies the poor radiological infrastructure, poor level of support and the basic nature of the radiological service in the capital. We believe this finding can be used as an indirect indicator of the possible worse scenario in the regional and peripheral hospitals. Therefore a nation- wide survey & plannedgovernment intervention is recommended to improve the radiological service.