As our first term on the 2019/20 Swansea Gambia Link Committee heads into the final weeks, we thought it’d be good to take a brief pause from visa form-filling and Christmas Ball planning to introduce ourselves properly. Below is the SGL Committee for 2019/20 with some fun facts to get to know us (where provided!). …
Dr Steve Allen, the man with the worst sense of direction in the world, is leading the scoping visit by members of the Swansea team in The Gambia this week. He’s well known as having spent a lot of time in Africa, so we asked him a few questions about how it all got started. …
By Martin Thomas and Dave Leopold. On Monday we had a tour of the hospital and we came across two autoclaves, one working, one broken. We realised instantly the consequences of the second autoclave breaking down – theatre would stop running for example. Close analysis of the 2nd machine showed that the door was buckled, …
The story of the autoclave, or “Denga Wollof tutti rek” Read More »
The diabetes team from the Swansea-Gambia Link will present their work at the 6th International Symposium on The Diabetic Foot in The Netherlands in May. You can read their abstract here: Diabetic foot clinic Abstract Find out more about the meeting.
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 …
Swansea University’s School of Medicine and Swansea NHS Trust have joined forces with the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul and The Gambia’s School of Medicine in a major drive to work with developing countries. The move is in response to the Crisp Report published in February 2007, welcomed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, which …
Felicity Walters explains how Swansea University Medical School is taking practical steps to help students understand global health issues. Read the full article: Pictures beyond the postcard
