23Oct
23Oct
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 Strategic partners on a common platform to exchange ideas, develop and partner together to achieve goals that will create substantial impact on cancer healthcare.https://www.globalhealthcatalystsummit.org/register
23Oct
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 forge ways of supporting projects (through research, clinical services, training, mentoring etc.) aim at improving the health sector in their country of origin. The program’s goal is to achieve brain gain from brain drain, thereby...
23Oct
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 and mostly at advanced stages, whereby surgery is no more an option but conservative therapies. At this hospital there is then the possibilty of obtaining chemotherapy as a conservative (unfortunately in most cases palliative) therapy....
23Oct
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 the countries we are currently involved to exploit the solar technology. In August 2011, Lake Constance Radiation Oncology Centre was the first Radiation Oncology Center in Germany to be powered by solar technology. Another example...
23Oct
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 of such a personnel monitoring program is to ensure compliance with established dose limits. With such a program, the hospital can also provide the services to other small clinics in the region, thereby guaranteeing the...
27Sep