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Dessie General Hospital is one of the war-affected health facilities, and an agreement was signed among the Ministry of Health, the French Embassy in Ethiopia and the African Union to better refurbish the hospital.

Health Minister Dr. Lia Tadesse said the Ministry of Health is working hard to restore and refurbish health facilities damaged during the war. She said the French government has supported the project which is worth over 81 million birr to refurbish Dessie General Hospital.

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed among the Ministry of Health, Ethiopian Airlines, Rotary International and the Ethiopian Heart Patients Association to send 100 heart patients to India for treatment by covering the full cost of treatment and air tickets. The Ministry of Health, Dr. Lia Tadesse, said the memorandum of understanding will strengthen the work being done to prevent non-communicable diseases in Ethiopia.

The Minister of Health, Dr. Lia Tadesse, at the 75th Annual World Health Summit, under the theme "Peace for Health & Health for Peace" said that a healthy society has a significant role to play in ensuring a secure and lasting peace, and peace is vital for health.

"There can be no health without peace," the Minister stated, highlighting how several health facilities had been destroyed and looted, many displaced and affected during the conflict in northern Ethiopia. She noted that this has hampered access to health care for a large number of people.