New surgeons in Chake Chake hospital
Insert in News the day February 17, 2009
The surgery project is ongoing. Started in Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania) at the end of 2007 by the “Ivo de Carneri Foundation”, it’s now in its second year of activities.
The project was launched as a consequence of the shortage of personnel, materials and equipment at Chake Chake Hospital. It intends to support the general surgery service in Chake Chake hospital.
In this first year, equipment was shipped to Pemba and Italian surgeons arrived to the hospital for surgical activity and training of the understaffed local personnel.
In these first 14 months, four Italians surgeons worked at the Chake Chake Hospital, for a minimum of two months each.
The expatriated personnel worked in a very collaborative and supportive environment.
The mission of the most recent surgeon arriving in Pemba started in January of this year (2009). Even if the situation is still critical, there have been some general improvements in the overall organization and logistics: rehabilitation of the roof of surgical theatre and the post-operating ward, continuous supply of essential drugs, reintegration of a second anesthetist.
Little steps in a direction that we hope will carry on and lead to a permanent change in the surgical assistance to Pemba’s population.