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Patient Information Pain Relief - A basic Human Right
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ASA News July edition
The July edition of the ASA News is now available to read online.
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Trainee Congress 3 October 2010
For the first time the NSC social and educational program includes a day for trainees with
lunch, workshops, lectures and more!
East Timor
East Timor, one of our nearest neighbours, is a small country that has emerged from a period of enormous destruction in 1999. The health problems are numerous and complicated. You have a chance to help contribute to the development and maintenance of a reasonable quality major health facility and the development of a training program for anaesthesia in this new nation.
The work is varied and challenging. The equipment is reasonable, with Boyle's type anaesthetic machines and the pathology is fascinating. Give it a go!
The Overseas Development and Education Committee of the ASA has been involved in recruitment of a specialist anaesthetist for the East Timor Specialist Services Project, managed by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and funded by AusAID. This project is providing a general surgeon and a specialist anaesthetist to the Hospital Nacional Guido Valdares (HNGV) in Dili, East Timor since July 2001. Initially this was on a one month rotational basis, but now there is one anaesthetist in Dili with the project for the medium term. We continue to provide leave relief and assistance with teaching of nurse anaesthetists intermittently.
The mainstay of anaesthesia in East Timor are nurse anaesthetists. The project has worked with a small number of them who were trained in Indonesia and has now developed a nurse anaesthetist training program which is endorsed by the Ministry of Health in East Timor as well as the Institute for Health Sciences. The project has organised and facilitated the training of the first nine nurses who graduated from the 12-month nurse anaesthetist training course in June 2005. A second course with six nurses enrolled graduated in July 2006. Another group is currently undergoing tuiton.
The nurse anaesthetists are trained to work in the districts of East Timor, to facilitate procedural medical practice as these centres develop the infrastructure. Anyone who is interested in the anaesthesia positions should contact Brian Spain through the ASA. Periods of two to four weeks will be available several times per year as leave relief for the long term project anaesthetist.
