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Improving global access to safe surgery requires training local clinicians

28/5/2019

 
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Kenneth Mealy, RCSI President (centre), with SURG-Africa team members
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​Our Global Surgery Seminar stressed the importance of training and supervising local surgical clinicians in the drive to improve global access to safe surgery.

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G4 Alliance Permanent Council Meeting 2019

18/5/2019

 
Advocating for sustainable supervision systems for district clinicians at the latest G4 gathering

SURG-Africa’s work was presented at the G4 Alliance Permanent Council Meeting, which took place in Geneva in May 2019, highlighting some of the ways to increase access to safe surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa. We stressed the importance of mobilising specialist surgeons, predominantly working only in urban centres, through regular visits to district hospitals to build the capacities of local surgical teams and to bring their expertise closer to hard to reach communities in rural areas.

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SURG-Africa has begun mid-term project evaluation of our intervention

25/4/2019

 
​Interesting results thus far - the intervention is proving successful!
 
Our research team met with 22 surgical providers from district hospitals in Malawi  (13 control hospitals and 9 intervention hospitals). This was to conduct mid-term data collection surveys recording the capacity of surgical district hospitals based on the following components: personnel, infrastructure, procedures, equipment and supplies. The team also collected data from operating theatre registers, on all surgical cases performed in the 2018 calendar year.  
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The team also hosted a second Participatory Action Research (PAR) workshop. The workshop brought together SURG-Africa supervisors and clinicians from intervention district hospitals. As a group they reviewed the successes and challenges from the mentorship visits to-date, always with the view to improving future supervisory visits. 

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SURG-Africa Implements a Mobile Consultation Network in Malawi

6/2/2019

 
​In March 2018, SURG-Africa implemented a remote Mobile Consultation Network in the Southern Region of Malawi. This network bridges the communication and supervision gap that had existed between district level surgical clinicians with surgical teams at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre. Free of charge, this network is now bringing together over 100 district clinicians and 15 surgical experts. Watch the following videos to hear more about the experience of the teams on the ground.
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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 works with multiple cadres within surgical teams

2/8/2018

 
​One of our Nursing Supervisors and Anaesthetists describes how SURG-Africa is working to improve surgical conditions in district hospitals in Zambia 
​Judith Munthali, the president of Zambia Operating Theatre Nurses Interest Group and one of our SURG-Africa supervisors in Zambia, provides a brief overview of how SURG-Africa activities help address the current local needs related to surgical nursing care at district level hospitals in Zambia.


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SURG-Africa working with the Zambia Ministry of Health

2/8/2018

 
​Click Read More to hear about how SURG-Africa works with Ministries of Health to ensure that interventions are needs driven and engage with the local actors
​Dr Daniel Makawa, deputy director of Clinical Care and Technical Services within the Ministry of Health in Zambia, provides a brief overview of the collaboration between the Zambian Ministry of Health and SURG-Africa. The Surg-Africa project aims to scale up safe accessible surgery for district and rural populations in Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi.

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SURG-Africa is flourishing in Zambia

23/7/2018

 
Our team on the ground gives an overview of how SURG-Africa looks and works in Zambia 
​This video illustrates the experience of running SURG-Africa (Scaling Up Safe Surgery for District and Rural populations in Africa) in district hospitals in Zambia. SURG-Africa is a 4 year implementation research project (2016-2020) which aims to scale up safe accessible surgery for district and rural populations in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. This is being achieved through establishing the effectiveness of a district level surgical supervision model, thus enabling surgeon specialists to be trainers and mentors of district hospital staff. SURG-Africa supports ministries of health from partner countries to scale-up district-level safe surgery country-wide.


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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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