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 .