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Improvements at Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital The following pictures show some of our new facilities:
There have been many other improvements too, including a new teaching laboratory and a lecture theatre for medical students, a new Dental Clinic, a refurbished Intensive Care Unit, and new Blood Bank. We also have our new Conference Hall, which can seat up to 55 delegates and has split level air-conditioning, which is proving very useful and which we hire out to bring in more money for the hospital. If you would like to rent out the conference room (rate D1000/day for government institutions, D1500 otherwise), please call Mr Koma at RVTH on 4229105 or click here. Organisational Developments But it hasn't just been a building programme that has been going on – much more has been going on in the way we care for patients and also in how we manage and organize the activities in the hospital – some of these developments include:
In February 2008 the foundation stone was laid for the new purpose built Psychiatric Unit, which is due to be completed by early 2009. The first Medical Students arrived at RVTH in 2002, having completed two years pre-clinical training at the University of The Gambia. 23 Gambian trained doctors have now graduated and there are a further 140 Medical Students in training
Clinical Training The Ophthalmic Training Centre for the West African Sub-Region is based at RVTH. Amongst the last group of eleven students were two Gambians, Fabakary Kinteh and Ousman Jallow. Fabakary won the prize for "The Best Cataract Surgeon." We also run other training courses, including one for Laboratory Assistants, and another for Dispensing Assistants in our Pharmacy – RVTH is the only place for such training schemes in The Gambia. We run our own training scheme for Nurse Attendants, which is providing basic clinical and nursing skills to our staff who have the most contact with patients. This very successful course is spearheaded by Mr Baboucarr Ngum, our Training Manager.
Forty of RVTH's top managers recently went on a management training course held at RVTH. The tutors were from Jollof Tutors, one of the leading Training Companies in The Gambia. To contact Jollof Tutors, call 9904904 or click here. Topics covered included Motivation, Communication, Performance Management, Authority, Responsibility and Delegation and Effective Resource Management.
Development of New/Local Treatments "Bixa" is an ointment we have developed with the Cuban Pharmacists. It is so successful, particularly in the treatment of burns, that we are now producing our own Bixa on site. We also produce our own Eye Drops - cheaper and more effective than buying elsewhere. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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