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It’s an exciting month ahead for GMH
... definitely a time to keep an eye on our website blog & Facebook page.
Kelly, Olivia (GMH Admin Director) & Carol Forde (Barrie Rotary Club) have arrived in Ghana and are heading north to facilitate the handing over ceremony of our medical equipment donations for 2015 to our 10 partner rural district hospitals (pictured below).
The types of equipment being donated this year are those that empower staff to have the capacity to provide life saving care, and include such items as
- oxygen concentrators
- neonatal resuscitation equipment
- suction machines
- nebulizer machines
- portable autoclaves
- patient vital signs monitors
- and more.
Our medical elective program kicks off in Navrongo Hospital in just over a week!
We are excited this year to combine Canadian and UK medical students on this ~8 week elective, which takes a good look at rural global health in resource poor countries.
Dr. Hannah Brotherstone (picture above), a superstar volunteer from our GMH UK chapter, will be joining Olivia and Kelly soon to focus on setting up a pathway for health care professionals from around the world to volunteer in our partner hospitals while being insured and registered with Ghana Health Service.
- Expanding our Helping Babies Breathe workshops to train more remote and rural community midwives on neonatal resuscitation
- supplying ophthalmic nurses with eye glasses and protective sunglasses (thanks to BiQi, the generous owner of the Shoppers Drug Mart Pharmacy in Parry Sound)
- and expanding our partnership to include the 3 newly upgraded district hospitals in the Upper East and West Regions
are a few more of the tasks at hand this month for GMH.
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