{"id":274442,"date":"2019-04-30T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=231f18b17b49d946ab9a96bdff270bde"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:33:47","slug":"ethiopia-laid-a-cornerstone-for-a-first-of-its-kind-cardiac-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274442","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia laid a cornerstone for a first-of-its-kind cardiac center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 April 2019 Health Minister Dr. Amir Aman and Netherlands ambassador Bengt van Loosdrecht laid a cornerstone for what officials called Ethiopia\u2019s first state-of-the-art cardiac center, a rare concrete health-infrastructure marker amid reform headlines.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-602499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia laid a cornerstone for a first-of-its-kind cardiac center\" \/>\n<p>Cardiac care capacity matters in a country where specialty treatment often meant expensive trips abroad or quiet resignation. A cornerstone is not an operating theater, but it is a public commitment that can be audited later.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government loved inauguration optics. Readers should still file hospital builds separately from soft PR: heart surgery waiting lists are a governance scoreboard, not a ribbon color.<\/p>\n<p>As health reference, the cardiac-center note belongs with other 2019 infrastructure files. Keep the date, keep the partners, and ask later whether the wards actually opened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nazret.com\/2019\/04\/30\/ethiopia-lays-cornerstone-for-first-of-its-kind-cardiac-center-in-the-country\/\">nazret.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia lays cornerstone for first-of-its- kind Cardiac Center in the country&nbsp;&nbsp;nazret.comEthiopia&#8217;s Health Minister Dr. Amir Aman and the Netherlands Ambassador Bengt van Loosdrech laid the cornerstone for a state of the art cardiac center t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602508,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274442\/revisions\/602508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}