TRAINING OF 14 SURGICAL RESIDENTS IN RWANDA MARCH 2017

A Multinational OPERATION HERNIA Team, led by Chris Oppong, Consultant Surgeon and Chairman of Operation Hernia, have just returned from RWANDA. The course Faculty drawn from U.K., GERMANY and AUSTRIA trained 14 first year Surgical Residents in both Mesh and Tissue Repair of Groin Hernias.

Lectures on almost all aspects of Groin hernia surgery were delivered on Day 1 and Day 2. The most important lecture was on Anatomy of the Groin delivered by Dr RALPH LORENZ, Consultant Surgeon from GERMANY. The lectures were followed by hands on, one to one Operating Theatre training at CHUK and Rwamagana Hospitals. This took 5 days.

It was a very successful Programme which provided essential, high quality training to RWANDAN POSTGRADUATE SURGICAL TRAINEES. Operation Hernia is grateful to the other members of Faculty : Mr David Sedgwick, UK; Dr Maik Lechner, Austria; Dr Albrecht FRUNDER, GERMANY and Dr George Ntakiyiruta from Rwanda.