For CapaCare, 2019 was the most challenging year since the organizations inception. Sierra Leone can be such a pleasant place to work and at other times equally harsh. We have [...]

Free half day international virtual conference: ‘Frontline Global Surgery: Tackling a Viral Outbreak’ This conference is in collaboration with G4Alliance, RCSI Institute of Global surgery, MedTech Foundation and Incision UK. [...]

The COVID-19 has brought much of the world to a standstill and Sierra Leone is no exception. President Julius Maada Bio confirmed the country´s first case on 31st of March [...]

CapaCare has proven to inspire many professionals who encounter its work. Therefore the organization has grown in the last ten years on all levels. To sustainably expand all activities structural [...]

The in-country Program Coordinator is a key function that keeps our Surgical Training Program in Sierra Leone running from day to day. The Program Coordinator manages, develops and oversees the [...]

The last months of 2019 left its mark on our small organization, the surgical training program and Masanga Hospital.  In November Lassa fever took the life of our beloved program [...]

With great sadness and disbelieve we share that Dr Erdi Huizinga passed away on January 14th 2020. Erdi has been involved in our surgical training programme since the start in [...]

It with sadness that we commemorate the memory of our former colleague Sulaiman P Kamara (Pizarro), who died in Makeni on 28th November, having been cared for in his sudden [...]

As Christmas approaches, CapaCare is preparing for the new year and the expansion of the Surgical Training Programme to include paediatric and internal medicine strands, assisted by the expertise of [...]

Wouter Nolet 1987 – 2019 Our beloved Programme Coordinator Wouter Willem Eric Nolet, passed away in Leiden on the 23rd of November. Wouter contracted Lassa fever during an emergency surgery [...]