GLOBAL SURGERY DAY IN RWANDA

GLOBAL SURGERY DAY IN RWANDA

It was around 5:40' pm on 25th May 2017 at the university of Rwanda, Where Incision Rwanda have screened the checklist effect. It is an amazing documentary which is interesting and educative to the medical student who are future surgeons, anesthesiologist and public health officials.

Students enjoyed the documentary and Incision Rwanda is proud to host these screening because it was being screened around the world in many different  countries include Rwanda.

Above are the Executive Board with Other Guest like Jess C. Hill and Samantha in the middle after the Screening.

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Global Surgery Workshop at University of Rwanda

 Global Surgery Workshop at University of Rwanda

Saturday (May, 6th 2017), Incision Rwanda one of the association which promote sustainable and accessible surgical care in Rwanda, organized the first global surgery workshop at the University of Rwanda, with the aim of introducing local students and doctors to the actual surgical needs in developing countries, such as Rwanda and to start to educate and inspire student about surgery.

The event was built around means of coping with the lack of access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The event was an interactive competition with three teams (participants) and judges (local surgeons), starting off with a brainstorming session on surgical care needs in Rwanda, wound management and surgical infections. This was followed by a session on capacity building by Dr. Christian Ngarambe -Head of Department of Surgery at the University Teaching Hospital of Butare (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Butare – CHUB)- and ended with a practical surgical skills session by Dr. Ahmed Kiswezi (CHUB).

From left to right: Dr. Philemon (CHUB – Dep. of Surgery), Dr. Christian Ngarambe (CHUB – Head of Dep. of Surgery), Dr. Ahmed Kiswezi (CHUB – Dep. of Surgery)

With the initial interest of participants already being high, the event only strengthened their interest, shown by the large amount of attendees willing to contribute in promoting Surgery in Rwanda as we still have some gap like still having low number of surgeons and people who live the country for some surgical procedure which can’t be done in Rwanda, where they meet financial catastrophe .

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About Incision Rwanda

Incision Rwanda is a medical student and young doctors-led initiative aiming to discuss about, educate on, advocate for, and perform research in global surgery.

As medical students and Young Medical doctors in a country who is developing fast in all aspects, we want to take part in that platform in developing surgical care, we anticipate for Incision Rwanda to become the best organization who has the great benefit to the students in increasing their knowledge and interest in surgical field.

We are hoping that Incision Rwanda will have a great impact on the future health of the people, as every Rwanda will have access to a safe and affordable surgical care and will lead to achieve the universal health coverage and sustainable development Goals(SDGs) especially SDG3.

Incision   aim to educate, inspire, and unite students’ through engagement and mentorship to achieve health equity for all people who need surgical and anesthesia care through study, research, practice, and advocacy.

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