Adama General Hospital and Medical College

Health and medical education

Adama General Hospital and Medical College (AGHMC) is a private hospital with an attached medical college in Adama (Nazret), Oromia. The World Directory of Medical Schools lists it as a private school that has taught medicine since 2013.

Do not confuse it with the public college

Adama has two institutions with similar names:

• Adama General Hospital and Medical College (this page) is private.
• Adama Hospital Medical College (AHMC) is a public college under the Oromia Regional Health Bureau. It runs its own website at adamahmc.edu.et and was upgraded to a medical college in 2011–2012.

Some online directories mix the two up. University listing sites and international databases show this private college with the public college's website, and with a programme list that looks like AHMC's: residencies, an MSc in anaesthesia and integrated emergency surgery. We have left those claims out. If a page, agent or social media post mixes the two names, ask which institution it means before you pay anything.

What we could confirm

• Medicine: the Doctor of Medicine programme is the only health programme we could confirm, through the World Directory of Medical Schools. A directory listing confirms that a school exists and offers the MD; it is not an accreditation.
• Other programmes: we found no official list of nursing, midwifery, pharmacy or other health programmes. The college did not have a working website we could find.
• ETA register: on 4 November 2026, no AGHMC programme appeared on the Education and Training Authority's online accreditation register. The register is new and lists only 13 certificates so far, all at public institutions. Absence from it does not prove a programme is unaccredited, but it means you need to see the authority's letter yourself.
• Rankings: the college does not appear on EduRank, uniRank or Times Higher Education.

The teaching hospital

The college is attached to its own hospital, Adama General Hospital. In the Medilink provider network, which is used by the insurer Aetna International, it is listed as a hospital with inpatient, outpatient and 24-hour emergency services (list dated January 2026). Wikipedia's list of hospitals in Ethiopia places it at about 8.561° N, 39.283° E in Adama, separate from Adama Referral Hospital. We found no published bed count and no list of the other hospitals where students rotate.

Private medical schools: questions worth asking

A 2020 history of medical education in the Ethiopian Medical Journal warned that "many of the newly opened private medical schools run the teaching through part-time teachers". In the national licensing exam, graduates of private schools as a group scored lower than graduates of public schools. Neither finding is about AGHMC in particular, but both are good reasons to ask the college for its own figures.

The institution

The hospital and college were the project of Kabir Hussien, an Adama businessman. Addis Fortune's 2020 obituary calls him "the owner of Adama General Hospital". It says the hospital and medical college opened "in the early 2010s", and quotes him as saying "None of my children will get a penny from the Hospital. It belongs to the public." An international higher-education database snippet gives 2012 as the founding year, but the same entry links to the public college's website, so treat that date with caution.

We did not find an official website, Facebook page or Telegram channel for the college. The only phone numbers and email we found come from the January 2026 Medilink/Aetna provider list, which is a third-party directory. Call those numbers to reach the hospital, and ask for the college registrar.

Admission: as a private college, AGHMC admits students directly, not through national placement. We found no published entry requirements or fees.

Before you apply

• Confirm you are dealing with Adama General Hospital and Medical College (private), not Adama Hospital Medical College (public). Their names, websites and programmes are often mixed up online.
• Ask for the Education and Training Authority's accreditation letter for the MD programme and your intake year, and check it against the authority's register.
• Ask which programmes besides Medicine currently take students. We could not confirm any.
• Ask for recent licensing exam and exit exam results, and how many teachers are full-time.
• Ask where clinical rotations happen besides Adama General Hospital, and how many beds the hospital has.
• Get fees and the refund policy in writing. None are published.