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Portugal’s surgeons are training future Mozambican students

12:32 CAT | 01 Jun 2017

Portuguese medical specialists will be in Nampula and Beira soon to complete a training program in the field of pediatric surgery

Mozambique went a step further in reinforcing its education and health systems, as the non-government and non-for-profit organization Health4Moz announced today that a group of Portuguese specialists will be in the provinces of Nampula and Beira, between 10 and 15 July of this year, to complete a training program in the field of pediatric surgery.

Founded in 2013, Heath4Moz initiated this project earlier in February, in partnership with the Portuguese Academic and Clinical Center (ICBAS-CHP), the Northern Maternal and Infantil Center’s Pediatric Surgery Service and the University of Porto (Department of E-Learning). Provided by experienced Portuguese doctors, the training program aims at filling the gap of professional medical specialists in Mozambique.

The NGO has been working for four years in Mozambique in various fields of expertise, totaling 11 assignments. Health4Moz’s chairwoman Carla Rego insisted on the free-of-charge nature of the training programs, executed by Portuguese experts on a volunteering basis. She also underscored the her organization seeks to assist local faculties and respond to solicitations from the Mozambican Ministry of Health, while developing partnerships with medical orders of both Mozambique and Portugal, providing training in specific areas.

Carla Rego is particularly grateful to medical partners for allowing their staff to take part in this development program at no cost, while funding for the various trips is provided by civil society, whose benefactors have joined the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Camões Institute.

“This year will focus on training in the field of e-learning through a correspondence course as well as in pediatric surgery, the latter being a course which Mozambique does not provide for”, continues Carla Rega. “In this respect, for the first time, we will deliver instruments to students who are not taught pediatric surgery in Mozambique.”

The correspondence course will enable some 60 students to access a learning platform of eight modules conceived by the doctors of the Medical Center of Porto and the Abel Salazar Science Institute (ICBAS). During the first phase of the training, set up 27 May 2017, students will be sufficiently informed to take in an inquiry related to the most frequent diseases in Africa.

Source: Courtesy from Health4Moz