News article on icSurreyOnline A NURSE has flown to Uganda to try to make a difference to the health of a nation riddled with HIV, deprived of basic medical care and where life expectancy is 50 years. Duncan Smith, a cardiology nurse, will spend two years in Africa educating nurses with the aim of leaving [...]
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Nurse on a mercy mission to Africa
Posted in Staff, tagged Duncan Smith, VSO on July 17, 2007 |
Proposed TB Lab at IHK
Posted in TB Diagnostics and Treatment, tagged Dr. Mark, VSO on June 25, 2007 |
Over the last few months a small team at IHK has been investigating the requirements for a new TB Lab. This work has been led by Dr Mark Russell. Mark has been working for the last year as a VSO medical volunteer at the Reach Out Mbuya community HIV programme in Kampala (in real life [...]
Reach Out Mbuya
Posted in TB Diagnostics and Treatment, tagged Dr. Mark, VSO on June 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Mark is a VSO medical volunteer working at the Reach Out Mbuya community HIV programme in Kampala for a year (in real life a GP from Penzance). He is working with Katherine at IMCC to setup a new TB lab. Take look at Mark’s Blog…in which he writes… TB is one of the archetypal diseases [...]
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