Summer 2009
There is no orientation so you are on your own to find out what you want to do.
May 1st, 2009
Anar Rajabali reporting from Vancouver, Canada
Volunteer Vancouver produced a booklet titled "A People Lens", which contained an entry about two CNIS volunteers Bev McEwan and Elaine Gibson.
Volunteering generates community. For me, this was the greatest gift, and came at a time in my life when I needed it. I have received far more than I have given.
July 6th, 2009
Pauline Tam reporting from Ottawa, Canada
An interview with Dr. Robin Fairfull-Smith about training new African doctors to handle the worst cases.
In Tanzania, where there are 150 formally trained surgeons in a country of 37 million people, the need is particularly great. As a result, young doctors are thrown into overstretched hospitals with a great deal of textbook knowledge, but little hands-on experience.
May 16th, 2009
Malcolm Parry reporting from Vancouver, Canada
An article about Karethe Linaae and the "A Night on the Savannah" CNIS fundraiser.
Native Norweigan Karethe Linaae bridges the gap as Public Engagement Coordinator for the Canadian Network for International Surgery
March 18th, 2009
Fiona Hughes reporting from Vancouver, Canada
An interview with Dr. Jan Christilaw about her volunteer involvement with CNIS overseas obstetrical programs.
Anyone who has been involved in this work will tell you that it is life changing. It gives you a whole new perspective on life and wealth and fairness.
January/February, 2009
Deborah Sanborn reporting from Toronto, Canada
About Dr. Tarek Razek's work at McGill university, CNIS involvement and surgical volunteering overseas.
He spent four exhausting months at a hospital in Sudan operating 7 days a week, 10 hours a day.
September 16th, 2008
Dan Jensen reporting from Alberta, Canada
Johnson, Lett, Saude to be honoured by University of Alberta
I was taught that the rule of a good camper was to leave your tenting spot in better condition than you found it. And, on a larger scale, that you were expected to leave the world a better place than you found it.
August 2008
Ronald Lett reporting from Vancouver, BC, Canada
International surgery and the Canadian Journal of Surgery: Ronald Lett speaks on why International Surgery is an important field which should be included as a standard part of the Canadian Journal of Surgery.
It is expected that this represents the beginning of a national rotation. Surgeons from all the provinces and many participants from the United States, as well as participants from 10 low-income countries, attended [the Bethune Round Table on International Surgery].
Autumn 2008
MaryEllen Gillan reporting from Alberta, Canada
A Cut Above: A biography of Ronald Lett and the history of the Canadian Network for International Surgery.
In Canada we complain about wait times for surgery, but for many people in Africa, there is no wait time simply because, without a surgeon nearby, there is no surgery available.
May 13th, 2008
Wendy Glauser reporting from Uganda
In a country with one doctor per 100,000 people, Canadian MDs help train physicians in best practices and how to face limitations.
In the labour ward at Mulago, Uganda's top referral hospital, the ratio of pregnant women to midwives is 10 to one. You walk through the labour ward and women are labouring on the floor and you're trying not to step on the amniotic fluid.
May 3rd, 2008
Wendy Glauser reporting from Hawassa, Ethiopia
With the HIV epidemic drawing most of the world's attention – and donor cash – Canadian Ronald Lett struggles to help newly minted doctors compensate for the neglect that now plagues the continent's traditional medical woes.
The world's aid donors spent $8-billion to $10-billion every year to fight the spread of HIV, close to 30 times the amount Ethiopia spends on its entire health system.
February 7th, 2008
Reporting from Québec, Canada
A collaboration between the faculties of medicine at Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada and Université de Bamako, Mali.
L'article en Français / Article in French
Ces modèles, très réalistes, ont l'avantage de ne pas nécessiter de technologies avancées, d'être peu coôteux et facilement accessibles en utilisant les ressources locales.
July 3rd, 2007
Dan Jensen reporting from Alberta, Canada
The Canadian government supports the Canadian Network for International Surgery in going green.
We have therefore arranged to offset our carbon dioxide emmisions by purchasing carbon offsets from Ecosystem Restoration Associates.
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