MWANZA COMMUNITY WOUND CARE PROGRAM
In Mwanza, Tanzania and throughout east Africa, wound care and infection are largely overlooked health issues. Making this issue more complex is the inaccessibility to medical and follow up care that many patients living in rural and sub-urban areas of Tanzania face....
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SURGICAL TRAINING TRIP, TANZANIA
The training at Bugando Medical Centre was a successful week of surgery and learning. With surgeon educator, Dr. Silvio Podda, and local surgeons coming together to perform 14 surgeries. The procedures varied in complexity and accomplished our ongoing goal of meeting...
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DROUGHT TODAY, SURGERY TOMORROW
“Over 36 million people in Southern and Eastern Africa face hunger largely due to drought and high temperatures…An unexpected but real impact of drought and hunger is the increase of household burn injuries for children.” Read the full article written by Program...
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MICHELLE’S MISSION: DRIVING DATA TO SUPPORT SURGEONS
2017 is Mission: Restore’s year of data. With the launch of our 3×3000 Campaign we will harness the power of data to measure the impact of our integrated programs. 2017 has also brought a new member to the Mission: Restore team – Research Fellow: Michelle Zavila....
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BRAIN DRAIN
By Kate McAuliff There is a Swahili Proverb, which says, “Where there are experts there will be no lack of learners.” At one of the partner hospitals Mission: Restore works with, the opposite is happening. Where there are no experts, no one can be a learner. The...
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JOINT CASES: NAIROBI, KENYA|NEW YORK, USA
This January, a team of pediatric and plastic surgery specialists including Mission: Restore Founder, Dr. Kaveh Alizadeh successfully separated 11-month old conjoined twins, Ballanie and Bellanie. The 21-hour-long surgery was the first of its kind at the Maria Farero...
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FELLOWS BRING FRESH IDEAS TO MISSION: RESTORE
This summer, Mission: Restore had the privilege of being chosen as a participating group in the World Economic Forum’s Global Leadership Fellows program. WEF Global Leadership Fellows Diego, Sarah, and Roger (pictured below) worked with Mission: Restore team members...
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EART16 IN NAIROBI, DAY 3
Wednesday marked the final day of EART16 (click here recaps of day 1 and day 2), Mission: Restore’s first ever regional surgical training in East Africa. The 41 participating surgeons started off the day by taking part in participating and observing two live...
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CHILDREN, COOKING ACCIDENTS, & THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN
By Matthew O’Brien On a tour of the Mnazi Mmoja Regional Referral Hospital in Zanzibar last moth, one of Mission: Restore’s partner surgeons pointed to a burn unit overflowing with young children. During the month of Ramadan, he said, the burn unit is usually over...
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FRESH EYES ON EVALUATION
By Kate McAuliff For the past month, Mission: Restore has had two incredible Summer Fellows. One week after our first Fellow arrived, our Field Team grew again to include Matthew O’Brien, an MPA student studying Economic and Political Development at Columbia...
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