Category: General News
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Emergency Care Nursing in the Dutch Antilles
From 13 to 22 July MeduProf-S will present an introductory course ‘Emergency Care Nursing’ on the Dutch Antilles Islands of St. Eustatius, Saba and Bonaire under a contract with Fundashon Mariadal on Bonaire. The three islands are due to receive new ambulances (the first has already arrived) to improve the level of emergency care. The…
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Hospital Waste Management Course
Sierd Hoekstra presented the first of a series of countrywide Hospital Waste Management Training courses. This course took place in Nairobi, Kenya in June and follows on from the Train the Trainers course in February and April. Sierd was assisted by local trainers who took part in the Train the Trainers course.
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Casualty Care Nursing – First course in Kenya
During the period June 14 until June 18, Erik van Roon returned to Kenya. After conducting the train the trainer course in May 2010 with the main topic being Casualty Care, it was now the turn of Catharine Wasike and Catherine Shitemi, two of the trainers, to provide the course. Erik’s role was to assist…
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Radiography Training in Uganda
Age Froma represented MeduProf-S from 3-14 May to conduct a Radiography training course. Here is Age’s ‘story’: “For the first two weeks of May I went to Uganda as a teacher from MeduProf-S. It was my 5th time in this beautiful country: the people are nice and so is the weather. The next thing I…
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Hospital Management Training – Module 4
From 10–14 May, module 4 of the Hospital Management Training in Kenya was facilitated by Michel Duinkerke and Martin Osumba. This module, entitled ‘Epidemiology and Public Health’ addressed topics which included measures of disease frequency, measures of burden of disease, study designs, measures of determinant-disease association, international frameworks and commitments to health, the health system…
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NVMBR Jubilee Congress
The Dutch Society of Imaging and Radiotherapy (NVMBR) held its annual Congress from 27th – 28th May. This years Congress was held in celebration of the NMVBR’s 60th year and took place in the Congress Centre (MECC) in Maastricht in the south of The Netherlands. 1.100 delegates attended the Congress and 36 companies took part…
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Training continues in Kenya with a Train the Trainers Course in Casualty Care Nursing
Erik van Roon, a specialist Casualty Care Trainer from Fontys University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands, has recently completed a Train the Trainer course in Nairobi, Kenya. The course was conducted as part of the Institutional Development program in our rehabilitation project. Erik trained 10 nurses to assist in the country wide courses which…
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Hospital Waste Management continues in Kenya…………
Willem van Prooijen presented the second part of the Hospital Waste Management Train the Trainer workshop from the 21-23 April. The course participants continued to play a very active part as each individual gave a presentation to the group as well as each participant being involved in one of four group presentations. Willem also incuded…
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Ultrasound Course – Module 1
Module 1 of the Ultrasound Training Courses in Kenya for the ORET Project took place from April 12- 23. This is the first Ultrasound module of a total of 4 and was conducted at Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) in Nairobi. 16 hospitals are involved in the first phase of the ORET project and 21…
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A Teacher’s Story
Wim van Grieken is an experienced Engineer and teacher and has been to Africa on two occasions on behalf of MeduProf-S. Read about Wim’s experiences as a teacher in Africa: Wim’s visits to Africa