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OPERATION HERNIA – PROPOSED DATES FOR 2019
The proposed dates for Operation Hernia Missions in 2019 have now been published. They can be found in the section entitled Mission Reports.
Proposed dates for Operation Hernia Missions in 2019
OPERATION HERNIA – PROPOSED DATES FOR 2019 DATE DESTINATION(S) TEAM (S) DETAILS OF MISSION and COMMENTS TEAM LEADERS January 12-20 Ghana: Bole, Takoradi, Keta Holland Training and Service...
Letter of Appreciation from Medical Director of the Volta Regional Hospital, Ho in Ghana
Following a recent visit by an Operation Hernia team to the Volta Regional Hospital in Ho, Mr Chris Oppong, Chairman of Operation Hernia received a letter of appreciation from the...
OPERATION HERNIA MISSION TO TAMIL NADU, INDIA – July 2017
A hernia camp was undertaken in July 2017 at the Bishop Walsh Memorial Hospital in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. This was the first venture by Operation Hernia to this hospital,...
Prestigious award for Operation Hernia trainee
Dr Lydia Nanjula from Uganda who undertook the Operation Hernia training workshop in 2017 at St Francis Hospital, Nsambya, recently presented a paper entitled “competence-based training – the hernioplasty prototype”....
Belgian Operation Hernia Team’s Visit: March 3 – March 10, 2018
A Belgian surgical team, consisting of four surgeons (Casper Sommeling, Veronique De Moor, Konstantinos Kothonidis and Marie-Thérèse Marechal) and two residents (Jasper Van Herck and Liesbeth van Bergen) visited Ghana...
2018 Operation Hernia/ASiT Shorland Hosking Award
Jonathan Evans, a year 7 Specialist Surgical Registrar with an interest in colo-rectal surgery and currently working in the West Midlands Deanery, has been awarded this year’s Shorland Hosking Fellowship. ...
Dutch Teams, Missions to Ghana January 2018
Operation Hernia Mission to Keta & Takoradi, Ghana, January 6 – 14, 2018 The 9th Dutch Operation Hernia mission was undertaken in January 2018. This year, the Dutch team, consisting...
FUNDRAISING QUIZ NIGHT – June 2018
On the evening of 16th June 2018 the Inner Wheel Club of Roborough hosted a Quiz Night at a local community centre in Plymouth and raised £600 for Operation Hernia. ...
OPERATION HERNIA TRAINING IN TANZANIA, November 2017
OPERATION HERNIA TRAINING IN TANZANIA NOV 13-17, 2017 Operation Hernia has completed another Hernia Training Workshop, this time in Mwanza, Tanzania. This is the first Operation Hernia Training Workshop to...