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Dorset Global Health Network: Focus on Africa
7 November 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Dorset Global Health Network
Focus on Africa
Wednesday 7 November 2018
3rd Floor, Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner at 18:30
Poole Africa Link:
Dr Frankie Dormon & Mrs Hilary Fenton-Harris
Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust developed links with Wau hospital in South Sudan and more recently Lira in Northern Uganda. Since the Poole-Africa link was established in 2009, local clinicians from Poole have visited 19 times. Dr Frankie Dormon and Mrs Hilary Fenton-Harris provide an overview of their current work and most recent trip to Uganda.
Ebola: What happened and what did we learn?
Dr Nathalie MacDermott
Dr Nathalie MacDermott is a British doctor who was working in a specialist treatment centre in Liberia at the heart of the Ebola crisis in 2014. Nathalie will share her experience, explaining how Ebola became an international global health crisis and the lessons we learnt in the aftermath of this humanitarian disaster.
Body Team 12, Directed by David Darg
Body Team 12 is a short documentary film about the Red Cross team who collected dead bodies during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. A poignant and moving film unveiling the practical realities and ethical challenges of managing the largest and most complex outbreak of Ebola infection since the virus was discovered in 1976.
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