Press statement by CapaCare International Trondheim Norway, 24 November 2019 It is with great sorrow to announce that one of our colleagues passed away last night in Leiden University Medical [...]

  Press statement by CapaCare International Trondheim Norway, 21 November 2019 The Norwegian humanitarian NGO CapaCare confirms that one of its expatriate staff members is infected with Lassa fever in [...]

The partnership with Masanga Hospital has been one of the cornerstones of CapaCare´s program in Sierra Leone from the very beginning. Dr. Alex van Duinen and his family spent 2 [...]

CapaCare´s Surgical Training Program in Sierra Leone accepts new students twice a year, primarily in April and October. After two years of intensiv training and clinical placements in our partner [...]

In the fall of 2018, Daniel Van Leerdam and Martelien Grootjans left us after more than 2 1/2 years as CapaCares program coordinators in Sierra Leone. Together they have had [...]

Since its infancy CapaCares surgical training program in Sierra Leone has worked closely with Masanga Teaching Hospital. All the initial training of our students are conducted here and so are [...]

  In the fall of 2018, 31 year old Wouter Nolet from Holland replaced Daniel Van Leerdam as CapaCare´s Program Coordinator in Sierra Leone. Wouter is a dutch medical doctor [...]

Many countries lack sufficient medical doctors to provide safe and affordable surgical and emergency obstetric care. Task-sharing with associate clinicians and mid-level health workers has been suggested as a strategy [...]

Alongside Emmanuel Tommy, Amarah Conteh was one of the first two students to enroll in CapaCares surgical training program. The teaching of surgical skills to others than doctors was controversial, but their performance [...]