Wolisso St. Luke Catholic Hospital and College of Nursing, situated in Oromia Region – Ethiopia is owned by Ethiopian Catholic Church, operated with the collaboration of Doctors with Africa-CUAMM, an Italian NGO, and the regional government, with special consideration to the poorest part of population, the staff training and the quality of  the services.

St. Luke Hospital provides a pharmacy, a laboratory, x-ray and ultrasound services, a physiotherapy unit and a nutrition rehabilitation  unit.

         The Hospital is organized in:

• Outpatient Departement

• Medical Ward with 26 beds

• Surgical Ward with 22 beds

• Paedriatic Ward with 26 beds

• Maternity Ward with 20 beds

• General Ward with 24 beds

St. Luke Hospital, moreover, includes a College of Nursing, in which 30 new Nurses graduate annually, at the end of a 3 years training.

Some numbers, from 2004 Annual Report:

• Population: 1.064.000 inhabitants

• OPD visits: 42110

• Admissions: 6420

• Vaccinations: 11114

• Deliveries: 1078, 43% abnormal

• Major surgery: 1093

• Major eye's surgery: 114