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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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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