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1. COSECSA (College of Surgeons of East, Central and
Southern Africa)
2. SODIS
3. Health
Research in Africa
4. Paediatric Exchange
Programme in Vietnam
5. Holy Rosary
Hospital, Emekuku, Nigeria
1. COSECSA
( College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa )
COSECSA
is an independent body whose aim is to foster postgraduate education
in Surgery and to harmonise Surgical Training throughout the region of East,
Central and Southern Africa. In July 2007,
RCSI and COSECSA signed a Memorandum of Understanding to improve the standards
of surgical care, education, training and examinations in this region.
RCSI commits assistance with surgical training in Africa
through staff and curriculum development, provision of skills technology and
training, the conduct of examinations and the development of web based
educational programmes. Through continued engagement with COSECSA, we aim to
have a positive and enduring impact on surgical standards in the East, Central
and Southern Africa region. More information is available here.
2. SODIS
The aim of the EU funded SODISWATER project is to demonstrate that solar
disinfection of drinking water is an effective intervention against a range of
waterborne diarrhoeal diseases at household level and as emergency relief in
the aftermath of natural or man-made disasters. The Sodiswater co-ordinator is
Dr. Kevin McGuigan, Department of Physiology and Medical Physics at RCSI.
For more information please see
http://www.rcsi.ie/sodis/index.htm
3. Health Research in Africa
Professors Kevin Cahill, Ruairi Brugha, Sam McConkey in the Department of
Tropical Medicine at RCSI are engaged in multiple programmes to improve the
public health and basic education within several regions in Africa.
These include establishing and evaluating a national malaria surveillance
system in the Gambia,
research into HIV and research into hepatitis C.
To view a list of all the projects and research being carried out,
please view the RCSI website at the Division
of Population and Health Sciences and the Department
of Tropical Medicine.
4. Paediatric Exchange Programme - Vietnam
The Paediatric Exchange Programme between OLCHC
and a Children’s Hospital in Hoh
Chi
Minh
City in Vietnam was
founded by Professor Martin Corbally, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at OLCHC
and Associate Professor at RCSI following an invitation he received to visit
the hospital in 2004.
The primary aim of the programme is to enable local Vietnamese counterparts in
Paediatric Surgery and Anaesthetics to achieve best practice performance in
their own areas and so improve the level of care in their own society.
Approximately 20 patients are treated on each visit by a team of surgeons in
Ireland. These represent surgical complex problems and each case facilitates a
major teaching episode.
Initially the project was supported entirely by RCSI and OLCHC but has been
self funded by Irish Aid for the past two years as part of a three year
grant. Initiated by the Christina Noble Foundation in
Ho
Chi Minh City, the project has assisted many children
and families, who were and are mostly on the bread line, achieve a
better quality of life.
Please click
here
for more information.
5. Holy Rosary Hospital, Emekuku, Nigeria
In June 1998, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and the
Archdiocese of Owerri,
Nigeria
signed a memorandum of understanding with the objective of improving
healthcare services in the Archdiocese. In 2001, as a result of this
agreement, RCSI offered to assist in raising funds to build an ultra-modern
out-patient department in
Holy
Rosary Hospital, Emekuku in addition
to seeking other ways of improving healthcare services in the region.
RCSI has remained committed to this noble cause and in June 2008,
received approval for funding
from Irish
Aid to facilitate the completion of this outpatient department for
effective primary healthcare and HIV-AIDS programmes.
Mr. Emeka Okereke from RCSI is the project manager of the programme.
Please
click here for more information on
the Holy Rosary Hospital and its relationship with RCSI.
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