Monthly Archives - October 2018

Mombasa Cancer Care Center

Mombasa Cancer Care Center (MCCC) program. We are partnering with the Cancer Research & Communications Organization (CRCO) in Kenya to help set up the Mombasa Cancer Care Center (MCCC) program. The goal is to provide a comprehensive approach to cancer management to the community at...

2016 Global Health Catalyst Cancer Summit

2016 Global Health Catalyst Cancer Summit Harvard Medical School April 2016 An welche Krankheiten denken Sie, wenn Sie an die meisten Länder Afrikas denken? Welches, denken Sie, sind dort die bedrohlichsten Erkrankungen der Zukunft? Hatten Sie Krebs auf Ihrer Liste? Das sollten Sie, denn Krebserkrankungen sind eine Bedrohung nicht...

Global Health Catalyst

MephidA is partner with the Global Health Catalyst in the co-organisation of the annual Global Health Catalyst Summit at Harvard Medical School in Boston. The focus is to bring Professionals, Public health Stakeholders, Policy makers, Medical companies, Healthcare institutions, Diaspora groups, NGOs, Institutions and other...

International Collaborations

International collaboration towards Medical Physics in Africa. Collaborating with several organizations and institutions on the improvement of health care, especially in underserved regions. Radiation protection is an issue in Cameroon, most radiology departments don’t know or don’t take the subject seriously and are not in...

MephidA ReConnect

MephidA ReConnect is an effort to help challenge the brain drain dilemma in Africa, the program is geared to assist and encourage medical physicists in the diaspora and other health professionals to reconnect with the situation on the ground especially in their home countries and...

Trip Summary of Dr. Rebecca B

Trip summary of Dr. Rebecca B. To Cameroon towards advancement of the Mbingo Baptist Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Care project. At the Mbingo Baptist Hospital Cameroon the majority of patients present with the usual tropical diseases but there is an increasing number of patients diagnosed with cancer...

Empowering Radiotherapy Cancer Care in Africa

MedphidA e.V.: Empowering radiotherapy cancer care in Africa Meanwhile the global response to malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS has led to the creation of institutions such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, cancer continues to claim even more lives worldwide, especially in...

Solar Powered Radiation Oncology Center

Solar powered Radiation Oncology Center. Power outages and interruptions are known to be a serious problem for most African countries and are attributed to several factors. We want to partner with well-known solar companies here in Germany to encourage hospitals, health care policy makers in...

Personnel Dosimetry Program

Establishment of a strong Personnel dosimetry program at Mbingo Hospital. There is currently no certified or reliable personnel dosimetry program in Cameroon. It is a systematic process for monitoring, recording, evaluating, and reporting the radiation doses received by occupationally exposed health care personnel. The goal...