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SURG-Africa travel to Kigali for COSECSA conference and consortium meeting

11/12/2018

 
SURG-Africa researchers from Ireland, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia present their work at the COSECSA Conference and all country partners meet to conduct the second annual SURG-Africa Consortium Meeting.

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Mobile Clinical Network in Malawi

20/11/2018

 
Hear from SURG-Africa on their Mobile Managed Clinical Network in Malawi which has facilitated mentorship between district and central surgical clinicians and decreased the number of unnecessary surgical referrals from the district level.

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Field trip to Malawi to attend COSECSA regional meeting in Lilongwe

3/9/2018

 
Meetings, meetings and hospital visits: RCSI team undertook a field trip to Malawi.

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SURG-Africa participation to the 2nd African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREHEALTH)

13/8/2018

 
SURG-Africa researchers, Mweene Cheelo representing Zambia and Adinan Juma from the Tanzania team took part to the 2nd AFREhealth Symposium.

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SURG-Africa is constantly working to improve the supervision model

30/6/2018

 
SURG-Africa helps to address the constant flow of intestinal obstructions through practical workshops delivered by specialists from central hospitals for district clinicians. Parallel sessions included surgical nursing care and anaesthesia. Participants enjoyed hands-on practical sessions and interactions with their trainers.

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Progress Update

20/6/2018

 
​SURG-Africa is about to pass its first 18 months. See where we are now: here is a brief outline of achievements since its launch in early 2017.

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We continue to grow - two researchers have joined the SURG-Africa team.

15/6/2018

 
Our research capacity is growing! This month the SURG-Africa project welcomed two new researchers: Dr Alina Cosma and Dr Martilord Ifeanyichi.

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Meeting with the Ministry of Health to strengthen surgical information systems in Zambia

8/5/2018

 
​SURG-Africa Zambia works to include surgical indicators in the national data collection system. So far, we have been quite successful!

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ECSA Health Ministers have heard about us

20/3/2018

 
​Health Ministers from countries in the Eastern, Central and Southern parts of Africa know what SURG-Africa is. We presented our supervision model at the 65th ECSA-HC Health Ministers Conference in Dar es Salaam.

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SURG-Africa Training of (surgical) Trainers successfully delivered.

2/3/2018

 
Being a good trainer does not only mean you have got just the right technical skills to pass on to you trainees. It also means you need to know how to talk to students, how to give feedback and provide supportive supervision. Our training package for surgical specialist covered it all.

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SURG-Africa operating theatre registers now in all district hospitals in Malawi

20/2/2018

 
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​ABCD - Always Be Collecting Data! Following consultations and approval of Malawi Ministry of Health we designed, printed and dispatched brand new, user friendly operating theatre registers to all government owned district hospitals. This will help to strengthen surgical data collection in these facilities.

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Situation analysis completed! We collected evidence documenting surgical care in district facilities in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania

10/11/2017

 
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SURG-Africa researchers, Chiara Pittalis and Gerald Mwapasa, during field data collection at Nkhotakota district hospital, Malawi

​Since July 2017 the SURG-Africa team has been travelling extensively around Zambia, Malawi and the Northern Zone in Tanzania to conduct a situation analysis of surgical capacity at district hospitals.​

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Global leaders discuss solutions to scale up surgery implementation in Africa

3/2/2017

 
In its first field trip the SURG-Africa Team joins global leaders in surgery at the Pan African Association of Surgeons (PAAS) International Conference and the Ministry of Health in Tanzania to discuss specific and concrete actions for expanding access to safe, high quality, affordable surgery and anaesthesia, particularly in rural and under-served areas.

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Major new project to bring safe surgery to rural populations in Africa

15/1/2017

 
o The SURG-Africa consortium has been awarded €6 million in research funding by the European Commission to bring life-saving surgery to neglected families and communities in Africa.

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