By Alicia
November 2024 Providing quality healthcare for the patient is at the core of Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) actions. Since MSF operates in many low-resource settings, and with most of its healthcare staff hired locally, it invests in the continuous professional development of its workforce. It is in this context that the MSF Academy for Healthcare […]
By Alicia
Sierra Leone is one of the countries with the highest number of women deaths in childbirth, which poses significant challenges to healthcare professionals. Sia Marian Sorboeh is a midwife working in MSF’s Mother and Child Hospital in Kenema, and participating in the MSF Academy for Healthcare’s Midwifery clinical care training programme. In Kenema, MSF carries […]
By Alicia
Fourteen MSF operating theatre nurses in Kenema, Sierra Leone, have graduated from a specialised training programme organised by the MSF Academy for Healthcare. The Operating Theatre nursing care training programme is the sole certification training programme in the country specifically targeted to operating theatre nurses, which addresses a critical need in Sierra Leone’s healthcare services. […]
By Alicia
Rabiu Salisu Adam is a community health extension worker who provides outpatient care consultations in the MSF-supported facility Tudun Fulani Primary Healthcare, in Kano, Nigeria. He has participated in the Outpatient Care training programme of the MSF Academy for Healthcare, a six to nine-month work-based training that aims at strengthening the competencies and skills of […]
By Alicia
NADINE NEEMA MITUTSO, Medical Activities Manager of MSF in Masisi, DRC June 2023 Nadine Neema Mitutso is the Medical Activities Manager of MSF in Masisi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and she is a recent graduate of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Learning Initiative. The initiative aims to improve the management of AMR in MSF-supported facilities by […]
By Alicia
May 2023 JIMMY LOKU OLIMPIA, Nurse in Malakal, South Sudan Jimmy recently graduated from the Basic Clinical Nursing Care learning programme of the MSF Academy for Healthcare, which aims at strengthening the skills and competencies of the staff providing nursing care in participating hospitals. He is a nurse in the MSF hospital in Malakal, South […]
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March 2023 By MSF’s field communication team in South Sudan Changkuoth Yoal is a nurse recently graduated from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Academy for Healthcare in Lankien, Jonglei state in South Sudan. In a region severely affected by intercommunal conflict and a fragile health system, Changkuoth is among the 88 learners who have successfully completed […]
By Alicia
March 2023 TUT RIAM, MSF Academy for Healthcare clinical mentor in South Sudan Tut was born in Lankien, a remote area of South Sudan, where an MSF hospital is the only functioning secondary healthcare facility in the region. When he was 13 years old, he contracted kala-azar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis, one of the […]
By Alicia
MALLE MAMA, Nurse Supervisor in Koutiala, Mali February 2023 Malle Mama is a Nurse Supervisor at the Pediatric Hospital in Koutiala, Mali. He has been working with MSF since 2011, in different departments of the paediatric hospital, such as nutrition, paediatrics, neonatology and emergency admission. Since March 2022, Malle has been participating in the Basic […]
By Alicia
SOUMAILA TRAORÉ, Doctor in Koutiala, Mali February 2023 Soumaila Traoré works in an MSF’s medico-nutritional project in Mali, based in Koutiala. He has been working with MSF since 2013 through different health services, such as Intensive Care, Paediatrics, Neonatology and the Nutrition service. He participates in the Antimicrobial Resistance Learning Program of the MSF Academy […]