The reconstructive microsurgery surgical skills and cadaver dissection course for postgraduate students was held from 11th to 14th April, 2022.
The course is being held at Kenyatta National Hospital theatre led a team of surgeons from Italy.
Three postgraduate students from the Department of Surgery were awarded Smile Train Scholarships.
The world’s largest cleft-focused organization, Smile Train, has partnered with the leading University in the region, University of Nairobi, through the Department of Surgery to offer full scholarships to medical residents based in Africa to study plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Dr. Edward Mairura, a Kenyan orthopedic surgeon based in Dallas, Texas in USA donated a set of surgical equipment to the Department of Surgery on 5th January, 2022.
The donation by the orthopedic surgeon at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center included; Stryker Huffman fixators, endotracheal tubes, vicryl sutures, pulse oximitars, and culture tubes.
Prof. Stanley Khainga led a free cleft lip and cleft palate surgery outreach at Kakamega County General Teaching and Referral Hospital.
The outreach was held from 22nd to 26th November, 2021 in partnership with Kenya Society of Plastic Reconstruction and Aesthetic Surgeons(KSPRAS).
The 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships, also known as the World Junior Championships, was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors, which was held from 18 to 22 August 2021 at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr. Mutiso the head of the orthopaedic unit led a team of young surgeons, registrars and undergraduate student volunteers in providing orthopedic care at the championships.
Dr. Eyal Melamed a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem who gave an interesting talk on diabetic foot, trained in Orthopedic Surgery in Haifa at the Rambam Medical Center, at the University of Louisville University in Louisville KY and at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate.
Dr. Melamed established the Foot and Ankle Service at the Rambam Health Care Campus, as well as the Foot Pain Multidisciplinary Clinic.
