The African Network of Medical Excellence meeting to launch Wednesday in Khartoum
With the Participants of 14 African countries ….
The African Network of Medical Excellence meeting to launch Wednesday in Khartoum
Khartoum:Haffiya Elyas
Representatives of health institutions belonging to 14 African countries (Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Niger, Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe) will take part in the African Network of Medical Excellence (ANME) meeting organised by the international humanitarian organisation EMERGENCY and the Federal Ministry of Health of Sudan.
On 1st and 2nd February, EMERGENCY’s Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Soba Hilla (Khartoum), and al-Salam Hotel, Africa Road (Khartoum), will host the two-day conference where representatives of EMERGENCY, the Federal Ministry of Health and of 13 African countries will discuss the successful examples of EMERGENCY’s Medical Centres of Excellence, operating in Sudan and Uganda with the support of local governments, and consider future steps and decisions.On 29 January, Rossella Miccio, president of EMERGENCY, and Dr Heitham Mohamed Awadallah, Sudanese Minister of Health, spoke at a press conference in the Conference Hall of the Federal Ministry of Health of Sudan to announce “On 1st and 2nd February the African Network of Medical Excellence meeting will take place in Khartoum, with fourteen countries reunited here for the sixth gathering of the network founded by EMERGENCY NGO to discuss the importance of free healthcare access, high quality treatments, specialistic training –
Dr. Heitham Mohamed Awadallah, Federal Minister of Health, said – Reflecting the successful experience of ANME in Sudan we would like other countries to be encouraged to join the network, and health cooperation between neighbouring countries to root in the following years”.“Emerging from our Manifesto for a Human Rights-Based Medicine (2008), ANME promotes the beliefs that every human being has a right to be treated without discrimination, and that governments consider the health and wellbeing of their citizens a priority” .
Rossella Miccio, president of EMERGENCY explained – “The ANME healthcare model has two guiding principles: free healthcare, and medical excellence guaranteeing high clinical standards and promotes the training of qualified healthcare professionals, researching development and local healthcare systems.
The successful experience of Salam Centre in Khartoum, which has just overtaken the goal of 10,000 surgical interventions and where every year we’re able to train promising specialists, has led us to give life to Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe, and now the exchange of young professionals between the two centres has become an extremely successful practice”.