DOCTORS at one of the region's hospitals are running an exchange programme with a remote African medical centre.
North Tyneside Hospital doctors are training medics at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, in Tanzania, in keyhole surgery techniques. The aim is to cut high infection rates at the African hospital.
Consultant Liam Horgan was the first surgeon from North Tyneside to make the trip and African Dr Kondo Chilongo has been in the region over Easter.
Mr Horgan spent two weeks training staff in Tanzania last year, working on over-crowded wards where the electricity supply was often cut off.
Dr Chilonga returned home yesterday from the North-East and it is hoped regular training sessions between the two hospitals can be set up to ensure the techniques are working
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