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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
A generous sum of £2500 was awarded in June 2007 by the Tropical Health and Education Trust. This was from their Seedcorn programme to enable a team from Swansea to make a short scoping visit to Gambia in September 2007.
A generous donation of £250 was made in September 2007 by the Llanmadoc & Cheriton Gardeners from their Open Day. This money has been added to other funds raised by the Swansea medical students to enable a visit by 3 Gambia students to Swansea Medical School in 2008. Many thanks to Jocelyn Chamberlain for making …
