Melbourne Invitation to hear from young Pediatric Surgeon in Ethiopia - Dr Kassahun

Wednesday April 23rd - 6.30pm to 7.45pm

pizza and drink provided

47 Warleigh Grove Brighton

Mal to Ask Questions and Kassa to Answer

Dr Kassahun (Kassa) is out on 58th Annual Meeting Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons scholarship currently in Melbourne this Anzac Day Week.
 
Short notice but I only just had lunch with Dr Kassa from Ethiopia today – he text me when I was on the Overland track last week and only got back last night. He didn’t say he was coming to Melbourne as it looked like he was not due to visa problems – we really need to support young local doctors like this. He is in Ethiopia – he needs support and to learn off Aussies. Come hear his story – Ethiopia is still in conflict.
 
I know him from late last year when he contacted me off (https://morechildsurgeries.com/) – I sent him $750USD money for child surgeries for extremely poor children in December. These are the 9 results in this pdf he sent me back. Click to download pdf.
Dr Kassahun (Kassa) – 32 yo – 1 of only five pediatric surgeons who began their training in Ethiopia in 2019 – 5 out of 120 million population (median age is under 20). He finished in 2023. 
 
Out here in Melbourne for a scholarship he won for 58th Annual Meeting Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons (https://papsmeeting2025.com)
 

Kassa started in rural school parents are farmers and lived 365km from Addis Ababa at Mertule Mariam (Mertule Mariam is an ancient historical place located in Amhara Regional State, in East Gojjam Zone in Enebese Sarmider Woreda. Mertule Mariam monastery is found at about 364 kilometers from the capital Addis Ababa.)

High school, then university at Hawassa university – got medical degree in 2018  
 
Finished pediatric training in 2023 and started working at Menelik Hospital
 
Then left and started at  Debre Berhan University Hospital in Debre Berhan about 120 km east of capital
 
17 beds for paediatric surgeries of approx 150 beds 
 
Currently 10 General surgeons with 1 pediatric surgeon, a Neurosurgeon, 2 orthopaedic surgeons, 1maxillo facial surgeon
 
Currently living in this city – 300,000 on 15 yo census with a catchment area of around 4 million – 
 
Future wife – Saron Admasu, a paediatrician – medicines not operations.

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