[4] Medical care in Ethiopia, a nation of more than 100 million people, is provided by numerous clinics in the countryside, and hospitals located mostly in larger towns.
[citation needed] As of 2014, the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, had more than 52 hospitals,[6] 12 of them state run, and more than 40 private.
In 2007, there were only two hospitals run by the Ministry of Public Health and private entities in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region.
[17] In 2007, there was only one hospital run by the Ministry of Public Health and private entities in the Gambela Region.
Many hospitals had been occupied by military forces as their base and to tend to their injured soldiers.