Portrait of the Emergency Department at Orotta National Referral and Teaching Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea: A Prospective Observational Study.

Improvements regarding ED specialist personnel, inpatient ward capacity, availability of investigations throughout the day and night shifts, amendments in referral system, strengthening ED and critical care capacity in zonal referral hospitals, and access to quality care among the non-communicable disease patients may ameliorate most of the bottlenecks observed in this set-up.