After six years without a functioning health post, communities in Tselgo, Ofla Woreda, are once again accessing essential health and nutrition services from a rehabilitated facility.

For nearly six years, the Tselgo Health Post in Ofla Woreda had remained nonfunctional following extensive damage during the conflict.

For the nearly 6,500 people living within its catchment area, this meant limited access to essential primary healthcare close to home.

Yet the need for health and nutrition services continued.

With support from the Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund (EHF), MCMDO’s Mobile Health and Nutrition Team (MHNT) began reaching the community in April 2026, providing integrated health and nutrition services while efforts were underway to restore the damaged health post.

Rather than waiting for the facility to become operational, the MHNT brought essential services closer to the community, providing a critical bridge during a period when access to local healthcare was limited.

MCMDO’s Mobile Health and Nutrition Team providing essential health services to the community.

As part of the response, MCMDO’s Mobile Health and Nutrition Team engaged with community members in Tselgo, providing an opportunity to understand local needs and connect people with essential health and nutrition services.

Reintroducing essential services after six months: MCMDO’s first community engagement in Tselgo.

From Emergency Outreach to a Restored Health Facility

While the MHNT continued providing services to the community, MCMDO worked with local stakeholders to rehabilitate Tselgo Health Post.

The rehabilitation was completed in just 45 days, transforming the previously nonfunctional facility into a safer and more appropriate setting for delivering essential health services.

The rehabilitation included the main health post block and the health workers’ residential block, as well as essential supporting infrastructure including an incinerator, emergency latrines and secure compound fencing.

But restoring the building was only part of the intervention.

To help make the facility operational, MCMDO also provided medical equipment, facility furniture and essential pharmaceutical supplies.

The result was a renewed health facility equipped to support essential health and nutrition services for the surrounding community.

Tselgo Health Post before rehabilitation
Tselgo Health Post after rehabilitation, restored to support the delivery of essential health and nutrition services.

Bringing Essential Services Closer to Home

With the rehabilitation completed, essential primary healthcare and nutrition services were reintroduced at Tselgo Health Post.

Health Extension Workers were integrated into the MCMDO MHNT structure, strengthening coordination between community based health services and facility based care.

The restored service platform supports activities including:

  • Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)
  • Routine nutrition screening
  • Targeted outpatient therapeutic feeding
  • Essential primary healthcare services

For the community, this represents an important change.

What began as an emergency response delivered through an open field has now evolved into access to essential services within a restored health facility.

Essential health and nutrition services being delivered at the rehabilitated Tselgo Health Post.

A Bridge from Emergency Response to Sustainable Care

The experience in Tselgo demonstrates how timely humanitarian action can respond to immediate needs while also supporting the restoration of essential local services.

The MHNT provided a critical lifeline to the community when the health post was unavailable. At the same time, rehabilitation of the facility created a pathway toward more stable and localized healthcare delivery.

This combination of community outreach, infrastructure rehabilitation, equipment, supplies and health worker integration has helped strengthen the foundation for continued access to essential health and nutrition services.

A Meaningful Change for Nearly 6,500 People

The impact of the intervention extends beyond the renovated walls of the health post.

For a catchment population of nearly 6,500 people, the restored facility means essential health and nutrition services are now available closer to home and in a safer, more appropriate setting.

For health workers, it provides a functioning space and essential resources to deliver services.

For the community, it represents the restoration of an important local service that had been unavailable for years.

The experience demonstrates what can be achieved when emergency response is combined with efforts to restore essential community infrastructure.

With support from the Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund (EHF), MCMDO has helped move Tselgo from emergency health service delivery in an open field toward more stable, facility based care.

From six years without a functioning health post to a restored facility in just 45 days.

Community members gathered at the rehabilitated Tselgo Health Post as essential health and nutrition services are restored.

For the people of Tselgo, this is more than a rehabilitated building. It is healthcare brought closer to home, essential services restored, and a renewed foundation for community wellbeing.

MCMDO | Health and Nutrition

Supported by the Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund (EHF)

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