Black Lion Hospital

Black Lion Hospital or Tikur Anbessa Hospital (Amharic: ጥቁር አንበሳ ሆስፒታል) is a specialized hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, established in 1964. It is a main teaching hospital for both preclinical and clinical training of most disciplines in the School of Medicine of Addis Ababa University. It offers specialized clinical service that is no compiled with both the public and private medical institutions in Ethiopia.^[1] The hospital is named for the Black Lions of the second world war, itself a reference to the genetically distinct Ethiopian Lion subspecies.

Black Lion Hospital was established in 1964. It has 200 doctors, 700 beds, 379 nurses and 115 other health professionals offering health care services. The hospital consists of 950 permanent contract administrative staffs that supports the hospital activities.^[2]

Under School of Medicine, the hospital spans various departments, faculties and residents. The Department of Orthopedic Surgery is the main department of the hospital founded on 25 September 1987 as the leading orthopedic center in the country. It staffed 16 consultant surgeons and 16 residents in training.^[1] On 3 December 2022, the hospital planned to construct its own private hospital. The decision is to seek autonomy from the federal government and establish its own financial assets. It covers 15 hectares of land for hospital expansion.^[3]

In Ethiopia, in 2001, there were only five qualified urologists. All trained abroad, in countries like India, Tanzania and Hungary. Before this chapter all urology cases were managed by general surgeons. The only urological unit in the country was at Tikur Anbessa Tertiary Hospital. The services provided included ESWL and endo-urology. The urology training program was started in 2009 with a curriculum for general surgeons which had a three-year training program. Up to 2019, six urologists have graduated by this program for general surgeons. The first residency program started accepting general practitioners in 2010 for a five-year program.^[4] The first two years were trainings in general surgery, the next three years were dedicated urology training program, which included the same three-year training as of the general surgeons three year curriculum. It started with two residents who graduated in 2015 with a certificate in specialty of urology. Up to 2019, seventeen urologists have graduated from this five-year residency program. From the start these programs in 2009 up to 2019, a total of 23 urologists have been trained in Tikur Anbessa Tertioary Hospital. As of 2020, there were 26 trainees in the programme. All of the urologists who graduated from Tikur Anbessa Tertioary Hospital were as of 2020 working in different parts of the country.^[4]