Location information
Hospital address
HEAL Africa, Fondation Kuno Baherenie Rue Lyn Lusi 111 Goma Democratic Republic of the Congo 34 Democratic Republic of the Congo
Hospital type
Public
Hospital description
Regional
Description
We are a 200bed facility faith-based regional hospital. 45% of our surgical patients are under 18. For more than a decade our teams organize outreach surgical campaign in 3-6 other hopitals in the DRC mainly for treatment of clubfeet, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, cleft lip and palate, vesicovaginal fistulas.
We are the first COSECSA ( and soon PAACS) accredited training site and we currently have 6 Surgical Residents in General Surgery.
What we would like to get out InterSurgeon are equipment for surgical care, resources for training young surgeons and anesthetists in pediatric surgery and when feasible joint surgical care/missions. We see InterSurgeon as a channel to facilitate training of our surgeons in the area of neurosurgeons in terms of short rotations, or whenever possible funding a complete 5-year training in neurosurgeons. In the current situation of the DRC, a neurosurgeon should be able to manage pediatric and adult clients.
Member information
Name
Luc Kalisya Malemo
Member type
Individual independent practitioner
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Paediatric
Languages spoken
- English
- French
- Swahili
Professional affiliations / memberships
- Other
Social profiles
Current and past partnerships
Has current partners or past partnership experience in these countries
- Australia
- Uganda
- United States of America
Our hospital partnered with Cure Hospital of Mbale in Uganda to start the ETV program for treatment of children with hydrocephalus.
Visiting surgeons from Australia have been sending teams of general and plastic surgeons, radiologists, family doctors, emergency doctors, sonographers, radiologist physicians and technicians, anesthetists, pathologists and hospital managers during the last decade and never missed coming even in the middle of limited security. None have been in danger. Usually, they have been coming in September-August for a month.
Visiting surgeons from the USA have been sending teams of general surgeons, family doctors, OR technicians, hospital managers for the last 13 years.
Many doctors from DRC have also visited Australia and USA for 1.5-2 months, clinical fellowships.
These teams have been able to fund around 20 Congolese young doctors to join MMed Training in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Canada and all of them ( except one) have returned at HEAL Africa and they are serving and training the next generation of undergraduate and postgraduate MD students. In this regard, we are a training center for 3 local Medical Schools based in Goma. However, up to 5 other main University send their last year MD students to spend their last 12-16 months internship at HEAL Africa before their graduation.