| OVERSEAS LINK CENTRE | HOSPITAL
DETAILS | NOMINATED OVERSEAS LEAD | LINK CENTRE & NOMINATED UK LEAD | ADDITIONAL
COMMENTS |
| Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC), Moshi, Tanzania | Very large urology unit - referral centre for majority of Tanzania | Dr Alfred Mteta | Brighton
Phil Thomas | First Urolink link. Main urology referral centre for Tanzania |
| Mnazi Mmoja Hospital Zanzibar and Makunduchi Hospital, Zanzibar, Tanzaia | Referral hospital for 1 million population (Mnazi Mmoja) and District Hospital Southern Zanzibar (Makunduchi) | Dr Mohamed Jiddawi | Taunton
Ruaraidh MacDonagh | First Urolink Clinical Officers' workshop May 2009 |
| Monze Mission Hospital, Monze, Zambia | Mission hospital 300km from Lusaka | Dr Michael Breen (gynaecologist) | Christine Evans Oxford
Jaimin Bhatt | Lot of open operating. Good fistula surgery. Urology CO workshop Feb 2011 |
| University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia | Main teaching and referral hospital for Zambia.
4 Urologists | Professor Mohamed Labib | Christine Evans Oxford
Jaimin Bhatt | Well developed urology department. Long-standing link. Lot of potential for development. Runs MMed in Urology |
| Royal Victoria Hospital, Gambia | | Dr Jah | George Fowlis | Long-standing link; excellent local surgeon |
| Hawassa College of Health Sciences, Ethiopia | Main referral hospital for Southern Ethiopia (17 million population). Has Medical School | Dr Aberra Gobeze | Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield
Shekhar Biyani | Hospital has equipment for TURPs, flexible cystoscopy, OIU. Local surgeon needs more support for TURPs, not doing solo. Good place to get exposure to open uological procedures. Endourology/TURP workshop March 2011 |
| Arba Minch, Ethiopia | 200-bed hospital in South Ethiopia (in the Rift Valley) on the shore of Lake Abaya. Serves population of 1-2 million. Currently minimal urology | Catherine Royce | Urolink | Can perform basic urological endosopic surgery but lack equipment.
Urolink will supply |
| University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria | Tertiary hospital for Western Nigeria. 500 beds (16 urology).
Medical School | Dr Edwin Obarisiagbon | Pilgrm Hospital, Boston, Lincs
Sam Osaghae | Mostly open urology performed currently but suitable for the development of endoscopic surgery |
| Kambia Hospital, Sierra Leone | Serves a lage impoverished area covered by 64 PHUs. Extremely high maternal mortality rate. | CHO Mohamed Kamara | Gloucester
David Holmes | Most VVFs referred to Mercyships shore-based hospital in Freetown |
| Coast General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya | Second largest hospital in Kenya | | Brighton
Phil Thomas | Reconstructive workshop 2009 |
| Kagando, Uganda | | David Lyth | Torbay
Rob Mason Oxford
David Cranston | |
| Kisiizi, Uganda | Largest hospital in South-West Uganda | Gabriel Okumu (general surgeon) | Reading
Adam Jones
Steve Foley
| Well-established link. Hospital has equipment to perform TURP but not sufficient trainng to perform solo yet. |
| Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan | | | Guy's
Shamim Khan | |
| CMC Ludhiana, India | | | Oxford
David Cranston | |
| Shengdu, China | | | Oxford
David Cranston | |
| Bhakatapur Cancer Hospital, Nepal | | | John McGrath
Neil Haldar
Shamim Khan | |
| Duhok Erbil and Sularmania, Kurdistan, Iraq | All good teaching hospitals | Dr Shakir Balinidi, Duhok | Glan Clwyd Hospital, Bodelwydden, N Wales
Vaikuntam Srinivasan | Urology has progressd very well since 2002. Laparoscopic urology |
