Organisation Offers & Requests
Date posted 10 Nov 2022
A Request in or around Nouakchott, Mauritania from Health Volunteers Overseas
HVO is launching its first project in Mauritania and is recruiting volunteers to provide online lectures. The project involves a partnership with Mohamed bin Zayed Field Hospital, a government hospital located in the capital city, Nouakchott. Built in July 2021 with funds from the United Arab Emirates to treat COVID-19 patients, the hospital now has 122 beds, 48 of which are for critically ill patients needing intensive care and 74 beds for conventional hospital services. HVO is recruiting volunteers to provide monthly lectures online to residents at the hospital who have a background in anesthesia and resuscitation and also to ICU nurses. The lectures are conducted in French and/or Arabic and will cover a range of topics, such as: how to monitor a patient in ICU; ABCD assessment; mechanical ventilation; hemodynamic monitoring; echocardiography; pulmonary echography; hospital acquired infections; and, ARDS. If interested in this remote volunteer opportunity, please contact Lisa Vu, HVO Manager of Educational Programs (l.vu@hvousa.org).
Full detailsDate posted 15 Jun 2022
A Request in or around Cochabamba, Bolivia from Solidarity Bridge
Seeking experienced anesthesiologist for Gynecologic Surgery Mission Trip to the Instituto Chuquisaqueño de Oncología (ICO) in Sucre, Bolivia, 22-30 October 2022. Preparation, including remote preparations with the Bolivian surgical partners, beginning in August 2022.
Full detailsDate posted 13 Jun 2022
A Request in or around Freetown from University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex
The University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex is the country's only tertiary hospital, serving the country's 8 million people. There is currently no neurosurgeons in the country, and only a few burr holes and shunt procedures have been performed in the last five years by a pediatric surgeon and a general surgeon. Our primary objective is to develop a neurosurgical presence in the hospital as soon as possible. We'll need to convert a vacant theatre room into a neurosurgical suite, train one of our senior registrars to be a neurosurgeon, train support staff, and purchase an MRI/CT-Scan and an anaesthetic machine to fulfil this goal.
Full detailsDate posted 17 Mar 2021
A Request in or around Blantyre, Malawi from Physicians for Peace
This opportunity utilizes a hybrid approach of synchronous and asynchronous learning to complement the local surgery curriculum, in which the trainer and trainee can share ideas and questions in real-time, located anywhere in the world. An understanding of the diagnostic and therapeutic modalities available on the Queen Elizabeth campus is a fundamental prerequisite to a meaningful presentation to this audience. Insights into the local culture and customs will make for even more relevant training and discussion. The General Surgery Lecturer will record a Zoom presentation in PowerPoint on a locally-prioritized surgery topic. The presentation is then distributed to trainees at QECH to be viewed prior to a deadline, a pre-requisite for a subsequent live Zoom discussion course with the Lecturer. This format allocates a shorter (1 hour) timeslot for live training, focused entirely on discussion, and allows better quality control of sound/video of the core content.
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