Today, February 2nd, Ms. Angela Casanova Sanchez and Ms. Elsa Valiente Sanjuan (ICU Nurses) have started their mission in the Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar (Tanzania) and will remain on the island until March8th. Thank you very much for your selfless support and for your tireless work.
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We started 2023, with our first mission to the Mnazi Mmoja NED Institute in Zanzibar (Tanzania). Coordinated by Dr Ruben Rodriguez Mena (Neurosurgeon), who is accompanied by Ms. Africa Sanchez Salas (Scrub Nurse).
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After a hard day due to the odyssey that I had to go through to fly to Zanzibar, it was time to eat a snack, relax a little and write what happened!! Debía haber volado a Zanzibar via Frankfurt a las 13h , mi sorpresa ha sido en el momento de facturar cuando me dicen que como mi pasaporte caduca en abril, NO PUEDO VOLAR ya que Zanzibar pide que el pasaporte no puede caducar en menos de seis meses!!! Yo sabia que me caducaba en abril pero […]
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Next Thursday 1st December, Dr Jose Piquer Belloch, Head of Neurosurgery and co-director of the VIU-NED Chair and Dr Ruben Rodriguez Mena, neurosurgeon and member of the joint committee of the Chair, have been invited as speakers at the “2022 Annual Meeting of the Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery” organised by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
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Our first resident at the Mnazi Mmoja NED Institute, Muly Abdalla, has performed her first craniotomy surgery and excision of a convexity meningioma. We could not be prouder to see how little by little our common dreams are being fulfilled and how the seed and development of Neurosurgery on this island is flourishing.
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The official opening ceremony of the 2022-2023 academic year of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universidad Internacional de Valencia took place on Tuesday November 22nd, attended by more than 100 people in virtual format. Among the guest speakers, Dr Jose Piquer Martinez, as Director of the NED Foundation and expert in international projects, stood out. During his intervention, he showed interesting data on Health and Development, Global Health and inequality, and on interventions for social change, ending his speech with the actions that have been carried out […]
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Last Sunday 20th, our last Neurosurgical mission of 2022 arrived at the Mnazi Mmoja NED Institute. Composed by Dr Alain Flor-Goikoetxea Gamo (Neurosurgeon and Coordinator), Dr Patricia Bosca Cortes (Anaesthesiologist) and Mr. Jose Rebollo Torregrosa (Scrub Nurse), they will carry out their solidarity work until the 27th of November.
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The 1st Conference of the Chair in Global Neuroscience and Social Change was successfully attended by an excellent reception by the attendees. The initiative, organised by the VIU-NED Chair in Global Neuroscience and Social Change, was aimed at the official presentation of the VIU-NED Chair by its directors, and the spreading of research in Neuroscience and the protocols associated with the application of this discipline in healthcare practice; and its relationship with Social Change, especially in countries with low socio-health resources. The conference, held in person and online on […]
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After a long absence, a new mission of the NED Gynecology project has arrived in Pemba. It is coordinated by Dr Rosa Barrachina Tortajada (Gynecologist), Dr Lucia de Vicente Montes (Gynecologist), Dr Enrique Cucarella Osca (Gynecologist), Ms. Gema Marcos Valenzuela (Midwife), Dr Fernando Carbonell Castello (General Surgeon), Dr Encarna Miñana Aragon (Anesthesiologist), Dr Cristina Martinez Porcar (Pediatrician) and Ms. Lorena Camarasa Escudero (Nurse).
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As we informed you a few days ago, today October 24th, the I VIU-NED Chair on Global Neuroscience and Social Change Conference has been inaugurated at the Ilustre Colegio de Médicos de Valencia-ICOMV We have counted with the presence of the President of the College Dr Mercedes Hurtado, Dr Vicente Gea, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the International University of Valencia, and Dr Vicente Andreu, Director of the Institute of Biosanitary Research of the International University of Valencia.
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