Hospital software in Jimma, Oromia

Jimma is the largest city of south-west Oromia and the referral center for a wide coffee-growing area. Jimma University Medical Center is one of the country's major teaching hospitals, and the university has long been known for community-based training of health professionals. Around it, health centers carry most of the region's primary care, much of it maternal and child health.

That combination — a teaching hospital and a ring of busy health centers — makes structured data valuable twice over. Clinicians in training learn faster when diagnoses are coded and results are flagged against reference ranges; health center teams spend less time on monthly reports when visits, deliveries, ANC contacts and immunizations are recorded as they happen and summarised in an HMIS-style export.

CareLink is fully available in Afaan Oromo, from the registration screen to the printed discharge summary. For facilities around Jimma we typically begin with outpatient, laboratory and maternity, then extend to pediatrics and reporting.