On February 21st, 2007, the Canadian Ambassador to CIDA, M. Yves Boulanger officially opened the Surgical Skills Lab located at the heart of the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The opening was lead by:
Those addressed at the ceremony included surgeons, residents, students, nurses and administrators from the Black Lion Hospital, as well as representatives from surgical equipment companies. The opening of this lab brings surgical skills teaching into a new era! This is the first lab of its kind in Africa.
The Addis lab is being updated with new equipment and is becoming a regional centre.
More information will be added soon.
The Jimma lab, which is under construction, will be the third surgical skills lab in Ethiopia.
The Gondar lab officially opened during 2008. ESS® has been conducted by the Gondar staff, but these were the first workshops for CNIS. An ESS Instructors Course and a Hernia Repair Instructors Course were conducted in the surgical skills lab in Gondar in February 2009. 22 ESS Instructors and 15 Hernia Instructors were certified. The courses were well received and professionally organized by Dr. Gashaw, the ESS Director, Dr. Amezene Tadesse, ESS Co-Director and Dr. Mensur, the ESS Patron in Gondar.
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