Gambia-Swansea Vision 2020 Link
A generous sum of £3000 was awarded in December 2008 by the Tropical Health and Education Trust. This Link has developed an action plan and this funding will allow the first stages of this to be implemented.
Talent Show ’08
The Talent Show, organised by the Swansea medicine students, was a great success. Acts from the students themselves, doctors from the NHS Trust, housemates, friends and family included pop and ethnic dancing, music and song. Featured acts included: A101 – Live music from Phil Maull, Sean Doherty, Shaun Favell & Martin Fawcett Uma Rajesh – …
Diabetes Foot in The Gambia
Alex Werhun, Senior House Office and Ros Thomas, Chief Podiatrist, presented the E-Learning Module in the Diabetic Foot to a group of general practitioners during their annual update in diabetes. Two sessions were held at the Liberty Stadium Conference Room during May 2008. The sessions were very well attended and the feedback from the GPs …
Health the Gambia Support
As part of the pathology project, a decommissioned tissue processor has been donated from the Swansea NHS Trust to the pathology department at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital. Prior to this, all tissue specimens for analysis in the Gambia were being processed by hand – a laborious and time-consuming process. The tissue processor will greatly …
New E-Learning resource on the Diabetic Foot
The latest eLearning module in our international health series was launched this week. This module focuses on the assessment and management of the diabetic foot. It was developed in response to a direct request from our partners in The Gambia, who are faced with many relatively young adults with advanced stages of disease who often …
Wales for Africa Health Links Group Conference
Following a very successful initial meeting last year in Cardiff, the Wales for Africa Health Links Group Conference 2008 will be held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea on June 27th. The theme of the meeting will be “Increasing the Impact of Health Links”. We wish to explore how existing Wales-Africa health links may be …
Dissection by Taxi
I was asked to teach the medical students in the Medical School here in the Gambia, so this morning I gave a lecture for an hour or so to the third-year students as an introduction to the nervous system. Anatomy is taught in an integrated manner here, with gross anatomy, histology and embryology taught and …
Twitching at 5am
By Paul Griffiths The team departed bleary eyed and bloodshot at an early hour, for a canoe trip through the mangrove swamps with local bird guides and managed to clock 3 species of king fisher and an assortment of herons, egrets, terns and wading birds before breakfast. The Caspian tern, or “flying carrot” as our …
It’s a small world!
This week a team of eight of the Swansea-Gambia Link group from Swansea are visiting The Gambia and the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital to meet our Gambian counterparts and develop a Memorandum of Understanding, achievable aims for the link and plans for future projects. To prove that the world is truly a small place Steve …
TESITO fund student visit
Funding for 3 medical students to visit The Gambia in 2005 was provided by TESITO. This charity aims to improve health in The Gambia with a particular focus on malaria. The students undertook bed net and nutritional surveys in the village of Julangel and also met with their peers in the medical school in Banjul.