Botswana
Princess Marina Hospital, Gabarone, Botswana
Addenbrooke’s Abroad is working with the Princess Marina Hospital in Gabarone, the capital of Botswana.
Princess Marina is the largest referral hospital in Botswana with just over 500 beds. It is a well-equipped hospital but like the rest of the country it suffers from a severe shortage of trained healthcare staff.
What particularly attracted us to the Princess Marina is that the University of Botswana is opening the country’s first and only medical school in 2009, with Princess Marina as its main teaching hospital.
The link with Addenbrooke’s aims:
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To develop human resource (medical) in PMH
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To help retain trained healthcare personnel
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To improve the quality of healthcare including eye care in the country
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To open up health care in PMH to global scrutiny
More information about the project can be found in the following presentation:
| Download: Developing links between Princess Marina and Addenbrooke’s |
Ophthalmology
In 2008, Addenbrooke’s Abroad in partnership with the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) won funding from the Standard Chartered Bank Seeing is Believing Campaign for a two year project to reduce blindness due to diabetic eye disease as part of the VISION 2020 National Plan for the Prevention of Blindness in Botswana
More information about the project can be found in the logframe.
Visits
Visit to Cambridge, June 2006
In June 2006, Oathlokwa Nkomazana, the Medical Superintendent of Princess Marina visited Cambridge at the suggestion of David Percy of THET
Visit to Botswana: October 2006
In October, four members of the Addenbrooke’s Abroad Steering Group went out to Gabarone together with Marcia Zondervan of the WHO programme Vision 2020 to discuss opportunities for partnership working and training with Princess Marina, and how we might work together in the development of the University of Botswana Medical School curriculum.
Andrew Lever, Kathie Butcher, David Adlam, Malcolm Kerr- Muir visit Botswana.
Visit to Cambridge: January 2007
In January 2007 a group from Botswana visited Cambridge University Hospitals. A programme of visits and meetings was arranged including Oncology; Paediatric Oncology; Critical Care; A&E and EAU; Opthalmology; Diabetology; Medicines Information
Oathokwa Nkomazana, Bertha Mmapatsi, Loeto Mazhani, Esther Moaro at Addenbrooke's, January 2007.
Visit to Botswana: March 2008
In March 2008 a team from Addenbrooke’s visited Botswana to work with our partners in Botswana to review the Link and to plan for the future activity of the Link. During the visit a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Botswana Ministry of Health, Addenbrooke’s Abroad and Cambridge University Hospitals.
Diana Kingston, Education Lead Nurse Intensive Care, Richard Howe, CUH Director of Estates and Facilities, Mary Archer, CUH Chairman, Gilbert Park, Intensive Care Consultant, Debbie Jankowski, Ophthalomology Nurse Practictioner.