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MAY 2025

Danielle Whiting and Steve Payne will be chairing the Urolink session at the BAUS Annual Scientific Meeting on Tuesday 17th June, 1400-1500 in Charter 3 room at Manchester Central Convention Complex. We hope you will all make a date for your diaries! The speakers, and topics, are:

Dr Chales Mabedi, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi. Chief Examiner in Urology, COSECSA.
Improving quality in sub-Saharan Africa; the COSECSA experience.

Mr. Will Finch - Norwich
Benefits of working in low-resource environments in the middle of your career.

Mr. Steve Payne – Manchester
What I will remember about Africa


APRIL 2025

Rustam Karanjia successfully completed the 2025 London Marathon raising over £2,000 for Urolink. Rustam got round in 3 hours 50 minutes, a fantastic achievement on such a warm day. I'm sure we all send him our congratulations on doing this and for raising so much money for us. It's not too late to donate, so if you feel you want to contribute donations can still be made by going directly to Rustam's page by clicking here. Alternatively you can donate by clicking the Urolink logo to the right, which takes you to the BAUS Just Giving page. If you use that route, then pleased don't forget to specify that your donation is specifically for Urolink.

 

 


APRIL 2025

Read Johann Boaz's,TUF Urolink Fellowship Report about his trip to the 1st UROLAP Laparoscopic Urology Workshop at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana between 23-27th September 2024. Accompanied by Zeeshan Aslam, from Aberdeen, Elsie Mensah, from Guys Hospital, and Ali Thwaini, from the UAE, the team set about a a week-long, intense, hands-on workshop at this first visit, to be followed by workshops running every 6-12 months to consolidate until the unit was independent. Johann gained an enormous amount from this visit, learned just how different training and practice can be in LMICs and how they differ from his experience training in London.

Read Johann's report Watch the Video from the Korle Bu workshop


APRIL 2025

Applications are now open for the 2025/26 TUF Urolink fellowships. TUF continues to support UK trainees who are BAUS members with this opportunity to get involved with a Urolink project across sub-Saharan Africa. Each fellowship attracts a £1,500 bursary towards the cost of travel, and a period of time in a Urolink recognised centre. There are four fellowships available and the deadline for applications is Friday 30th May.

....or apply via the TUF website


 

MARCH 2025

 

Urolink are also delighted to announce this month that Mary Suphi, BAUS CEO, and the team at BAUS have registered the BAUS charity on the "Just Giving" platform to facilitate donations to help with Urolink's activities.

If you are doing anything to raise donations for Urolink, and want to GiftAid the donations, then you can do that by clicking the link here, or the button to the right of this message. Please copy the banner above into the comments box, to ensure that the donation is recognised as being aimed specifically to support Urolink!