Barriers and facilitators to providing facility-based emergency care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A mixed methods study

Overall, the tertiary hospitals in Addis Ababa reported they could perform the majority of the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the emergency units despite the interruption of some of the services. Some of the services' complete absence or interruptions were due to several barriers. Both existing literature and the findings of this study indicate the EUs of Ethiopian hospitals need further investment to improve resource availability and proper management of available resources.